FREEMAN v. CHASE

No. 42,716-WCA.

974 So.2d 25 (2007)

Billie FREEMAN, Plaintiff-Appellee v. J.P. Morgan CHASE, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

December 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ungarino & Eckert, L.L.C. by Brian D. Smith, J. Michael Nash, Shreveport, Christopher C. Broughton, for Appellant.

Law Offices of Street & Street by C. Daniel Street, Monroe, for Appellee.

Before PEATROSS, MOORE and LOLLEY, JJ.


MOORE, J.

The employer and its insurer, J.P. Morgan Chase and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (collectively referred to as "Chase"), appeal a judgment that refused to order either a forfeiture of workers' compensation benefits for intentional misrepresentations by the claimant or a reduction of benefits for the claimant's failure to accept rehabilitation services. The claimant, Billie Freeman, responds that Chase did not properly plead these defenses and, at any...

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