Opinion ID: 782336
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The claimant's future lost wages

Text: 62 All three claimants assert that the district court erred in the amounts it awarded for future lost wages. The claimants argue that the court erred when it assumed they could return to work even though they could not, or assumed that they could return earlier than they actually could. The district court did award future lost wages to Fontenot and LeBlanc but not to Thibodeaux because there was already a stipulation in the record that Thibodeaux had returned to work and was entitled to no future wage loss. We do not find this to be in error. Fontenot and LeBlanc claim the district court erred in finding that they had been cleared to return to work. In fact, the district court based its decision about Fontenot on testimony contained in various doctors' reports and on the similarity of Fontenot's injury to Thibodeaux's. As for LeBlanc, the district court did assess his future lost wages but found, based on expert testimony, that he would be able to return to a field of work and that he had transferrable skills. Therefore it does not appear that the district court was clearly erroneous.