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AUCOIN v. DOW CHEMICAL CO.

No. 98 CA 1912.

745 So.2d 682 (1999)

Rudy Joseph AUCOIN v. The DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1999.

Writ Denied February 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max LaBranche, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee, Rudy J. Aucoin.

Gregory E. Bodin, John Stewart Tharp, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant, The Dow Chemical Company.

Karen E. Dugas, Plaquemine, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant, The Dow Chemical Company.

Before: CARTER, C.J., LeBLANC and PETTIGREW, JJ.

LeBLANC, J.

Defendant, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), appeals from a judgment finding the plaintiff, Rudy Joseph Aucoin (Aucoin), temporarily, totally disabled due to the aggravation of a pre-existing physical/mental injury connected with his employment. For the following reasons, we reverse the trial court judgment.

FACTS

In October 1994, Aucoin was an operations specialist for Dow, working in the Poly A plant, when a "decomp" (a loud, controlled...

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