Opinion

Benoit v. Turner Industries Group, LLC

  • 85 So. 3d 629
  • 2012 La. LEXIS 19
  • 2012 WL 182131
Court
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Filed
Jan 24, 2012
Status
Published
Author
Weimer
On the bench
Johnson, Knoll, Weimer
Cited by
16 cases

“the workers compensation regime represents a quid pro quo compromise of interests, whereby ‘the employee received] an absolute right to recover limited benefits in exchange for the employer’s tort immunity.’ ”

How later courts described this case

  • “the workers compensation regime represents a quid pro quo compromise of interests, whereby ‘the employee received] an absolute right to recover limited benefits in exchange for the employer’s tort immunity.’ ”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

WEIMER, J.,

concurring.

|,I concur. The employer’s writ application was granted to address the award of medical expenses in this matter. Rather than recalling and denying the writ with respect to the employer’s assignments of error that were not addressed in the opinion, I think it is more appropriate to simply pretermit those issues.

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