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CNA INS. CO. v. FINCHER

No. 82-580.

428 So.2d 1278 (1983)

CNA INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Betty Jean FINCHER, Joe B. Fincher, and Shirley Touchet Cormier, Defendant-Appellant (Betty Fincher).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied May 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kim Kidd and Edward J. Milligan, Jr., Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.

Voorhies & Labbe, John N. Chappuis, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellee.

Pucheu & Pucheu, Jacque B. Pucheu, Eunice, Elwood C. Stevens, Morgan City, for defendants-appellees.

Before STOKER, DOUCET, YELVERTON, JJ.

STOKER, Judge.

In this case we decide whether Betty Jean Hindman (Fincher), as the former concubine of the deceased, Ricky Joe Fincher, is entitled to workers' compensation benefits under Henderson v. Travelers Insurance Company, 354 So.2d 1031 (La.1978). That case held that a concubine who was an "other dependent member of the family" of the deceased was not disqualified from receiving workers' compensation merely because...

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