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POREE v. ELITE ELEVATOR SERVICES, INC.

No. 98-C-0032.

711 So.2d 816 (1998)

Diane B. POREE v. ELITE ELEVATOR SERVICES, INC., Dover Elevator Company, ABC Insurance Company and XYZ Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

April 8, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catrice A. Johnson, Maurice A. Williams, New Orleans, and Lawrence Boasso, Metairie, for Respondents Diane B. Poree and Dorothy B. Broussard.

Jerome M. Volk, Jr., Wayne M. Aufrecht, DeMartini, LeBlanc, D'Aquila & Volk, Kenner, for Relators Dover Elevator Systems, Inc.; Dover Corporation-Elevator Division and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.

Before LOBRANO, WALTZER and LANDRIEU, JJ.

WALTZER, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

This suit arises out of a 10 March 1993 incident in which the wheelchair-bound plaintiff allegedly propelled her wheelchair backwards out of an elevator at the Walter Cohen High School, where she was employed as a science teacher. According to Poree's petition, the elevator had stopped approximately eighteen inches above the level of the floor, causing her to fall and suffer disabling closed head injuries.

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