Opinion

Montgomery v. Lafayette Parish School Board

  • 31 So. 3d 1071
  • 2009 WL 4639579
Court
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Filed
Apr 7, 2010
Status
Published
Author
Cooks
On the bench
Thibodeaux, Cooks, Saunders
Cited by
5 cases

The opinion

ON REHEARING

Rehearing denied.

COOKS, J.,

dissenting.

11The School Board filed an application for rehearing, asserting our original opinion failed to address its assignment of error that the trial court erred in finding it arbitrary and capricious in terminating Mr. Montgomery’s benefits. I would vote to grant rehearing solely for the limited purpose of clarifying our original opinion, wherein we specifically noted the School Board’s arbitrary and capricious acts in wrongfully terminating benefits. We noted, among other things, that Ms. Herron, Mr. Montgomery’s vocational rehabilitation counselor, failed to contact the two security jobs in question to verify availability. We also stated it was unreasonable for Ms. Herron not to further investigate exactly what physical requirements the State mandated training courses required. Further, Ms. Herron acknowledged she failed to discuss transportation issues with Mr. Montgomery, which the workers’ compensation judge expressly believed was an issue of concern. For these reasons, we found the judgment of the Office of Workers’ Compensation was correct in all aspects, including the awards of penalties and attorney fees. I would decline to award counsel for Mr. Montgomery’s request for additional attorney fees for having to respond to this Rehearing Application.

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