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PEELER v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.

No. 96 CA 1423.

696 So.2d 1064 (1997)

Herman L. PEELER v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 20, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Gaspard, Baton Rouge, for Appellee-Plaintiff, Herman Peeler.

Frank Whitely, Metairie, for Appellant-Defendant, Georgia-Pacific Corp.

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

FOIL, Judge.

In this appeal, appellant challenges the hearing officer's determination that this worker's compensation claim, filed more than three years after the accident, did not prescribe. We reverse.

Herman Peeler filed this disputed claim for compensation benefits in the Office of Workers' Compensation on June 7, 1994. The claim stated that he injured his neck in a work-related accident at his employer's warehouse on March 31, 1991. Defendant, Georgia...

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