Legal Opinion
Nivens v. Fields
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 16, 2011No. 46,524-WCAPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.
hln this workers’ compensation case, the defendant-appellant, David Fields, is appealing a judgment awarding plaintiff-ap-pellee, Rita Nivens, both medical and indemnity benefits, as well as penalties and attorney’s fees. For the reasons assigned below, we affirm.
FACTS
On December 2, 2008, in Ouachita Parish, one of Nivens’s fingers was crushed while she and Fields were “raking and grading” the driveway of a trailer park. Apparently, Fields, who was operating a tractor, placed his foot on the brake while Nivens was attempting to hook a box blade to the tractor. Fields’s foot slipped off the…
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