BUTLER v. PARISH OF JEFFERSON

No. 06-CA-669.

951 So.2d 1218 (2007)

Robert BUTLER v. PARISH OF JEFFERSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

January 30, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Urann, Robein, Urann & Lurye, P.L.C., Attorney at Law, Metairie, Louisiana, for Plaintiff/Appellee, Robert Butler.

Wade A. Langlois, III, Courtney Fuller, Gaudry, Ranson, Higgins & Gremillion, L.L.C., Attorneys at Law, Gretna, Louisiana, for Defendant/Appellant, Parish of Jefferson, East Bank Consolidated Fire District.

Panel composed of Judges THOMAS F. DALEY, SUSAN M. CHEHARDY, and GREG G. GUIDRY.


SUSAN M. CHEHARDY, Judge.

In this workers' compensation case the claimant, a firefighter, was awarded temporary total disability benefits for coronary artery disease diagnosed prior to his retirement. On appeal his employer, a parish fire department, asserts the Office of Workers' Compensation judge erred in failing to find that the claim had prescribed and in finding the employer arbitrary and capricious for failure to pay weekly benefits. We affirm.

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