JAMES v. FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP. OF LA.

No. 95 CA 1794.

672 So.2d 319 (1996)

Louwanna Coleman JAMES v. FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION OF LOUISIANA.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 4, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brien J. Fricke, John G. Munoz, New Orleans, and John B. Comish, Baton Rouge, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

W. Arthur Abercrombie, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellee West-Paine Laboratories, Inc.

Douglas K. Williams, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellee Formosa Plastics Corp. of Louisiana.

Grayson H. Brown, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellee The Travelers Ins. Co.

Before LOTTINGER, C.J., and LeBLANC and FOGG, JJ.


FOGG, Judge.

This appeal is brought by a plaintiff who was injured in the course and scope of her employment. She filed her original petition against Formosa Plastics Corporation of Louisiana, which was not her employer, for compensatory damages only. After the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court in Billiot v. B.P. Oil Co., 93-1118 (La. 9/29/94), 645 So.2d 604, plaintiff amended her petition to include a claim for exemplary...

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