Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-12-05 00:04:23.733674+00
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

              COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

LOUISIANA WORKERS'                                                               NO.     2023 CW          1057
COMPENSATION         CORPORATION

VERSUS

SIBLEY CONSTRUCTION                                                         DECEMBER 4,               2023
SERVICES,         INC.    AND     KYLE
SIBLEY

In Re:           Sibley      Construction           Services,             Inc.    and         Kyle    Sibley,
                 applying         for    supervisory writs,               19th        Judicial       District
                 Court,      Parish of East Baton Rouge,                        No.    664134.

BEFORE:          McCLENDON,         HESTER,      AND MILLER,         JJ.

        WRIT      GRANTED.         The    trial    court's         September            26,    2023       order,
which        granted        the     Second        Exception          of         Vagueness          filed         by
defendant-in-reconvention,                        Louisiana           Workers'                Compensation
Corporation ("           LWCC"),         cast    defendants-in-reconvention,                          Sibley-
Construction             Services,        Inc.    and       Kyle     Sibley ("           Sibley"),             with
costs       of    this      proceeding,          and    further           ordered        Sibley       to       pay
reasonable          attorney's          fees    to LWCC     in the        amount        of    five    hundred
     500)    dollars,        is    reversed.           We     find    the        allegations              in    the
Amended          Reconventional           Demand,        asserting              Sibley's           claim        for
attorney's          fees,    fairly       inform       LWCC    of    the        nature        of   the     cause
of     action       and     include        sufficient          substantial              particulars              to
enable       LWCC    to    prepare        its    defense.      See        La.    Code     Civ.       P.    arts.
854,    861,      and     891 (A);       see    also   Thomas        v.    Sonic,        2006-0014 (            La.
App.    1st      Cir.     11/3/06),        950    So.2d       822,        824.         Accordingly,             the
Second Exception of Vagueness                     is denied.

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COURT       OF APPEAL,       FIRST CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
              FOR THE       COURT