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TUGLER v. JAMES MACHINE WORKS, INC.

No. 41,704-WCA.

948 So.2d 1157 (2007)

Eliger TUGLER, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant v. JAMES MACHINE WORKS INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

January 24, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eliger Tugler, Jr. In Proper Person.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P. By: Joseph J. Lowenthal, Christopher S. Mann, New Orleans, and Vanessa W. Servat, Lafayette, for Appellee.

Before GASKINS, CARAWAY and LOLLEY, JJ.

CARAWAY, J.

In this workers' compensation action, the claimant sought benefits for an alleged occupational disease caused by his work as a sandblaster. His former employer argued that claimant's lump sum settlement in 2002 for injuries from a 1996 workplace accident precluded further recovery of benefits. In response, claimant petitioned to nullify the judgment dismissing his prior workers' compensation claim which had been settled. After denying defendant's exception...

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