Opinion ID: 685620
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Totality of the Circumstances and Exceptional Cases

Text: 59 To reach our classification of this case as exceptional, we analyze it in the perspective of the totality of the circumstances: Carriere's accident yielded claims against two contractually related defendants, Chandeleur and Grey Wolf; the Carrieres' claim against Chandeleur, a foreign corporation and Carriere's direct employer, was resolved properly by application of Louisiana's workers' compensation law; Carriere was compensated for his injury pursuant to Louisiana law; Appellants' claims against Grey Wolf--which are based on the same accident--are made against a second defendant which, like Chandeleur, is also a foreign corporation; under Louisiana law--the same law that has already compensated Carriere for his injury vis a vis the first defendant (Chandeleur)--the second defendant (Grey Wolf) clearly qualifies as an immunized statutory employer, 14 yet in this dispute, Carriere urges us to apply Texas law so that he can recover in tort against Grey Wolf; and finally if, by running Appellants' claims simplistically through a Civil Code article 3544(2) checklist, we were to conclude that Texas law applies, we would be guilty of failing to consider the effect that such a ruling would have on Louisiana's workers' compensation law--again, the law under which Carriere has already applied for and received benefits. 60