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COLBERT v. LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. DENTAL SCH.

No. 83-C-1753.

474 So.2d 441 (1985)

Lobertha COLBERT v. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY DENTAL SCHOOL et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

August 19, 1985.

Majority Opinion: 446 So.2d 1204 (La. 1984).

DENNIS, Justice, dissenting.

I respectfully dissent.

The majority notes the specific requisites of La.R.S. 23:1272, but fails to note its obvious purpose: to protect the injured employee in the context of non-adversarial, in-chambers approval by the court of compromise agreements. "[J]udgement approving lump sum settlement or compromise need not be signed in open court...

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