Court Opinion

ID: 7784970
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 21:20:07.980775+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:28:16.420796
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WHIPPLE, J.,
dissenting.
h Due to the inadequacies of this record, including the key evidentiary exhibits apparently relied upon by the worker’s compensation judge, I would vacate and remand for supplementation of the record. Moreover, I disagree with the majority’s seeming conclusion that an employee who seeks to avail himself of the rights and conditions cited with approval in Crain Brothers, Inc. v. Richard, 2002-1342 (La.App. 3rd Cir.4/9/03), 842 So.2d 523, automatically renders himself subject to a fifty-percent reduction in benefits for failure to cooperate. Instead, in my view, every case must be decided on its particular facts. Moreover, I find most of the conditions at issue in Crain to be reasonable and straightforward. Thus, given the inadequacies of the record, I respectfully dissent.