BROUSSARD PHYSICAL THERAPY v. FAMILY DOLLAR

No. CW 08-3.

981 So.2d 145 (2008)

BROUSSARD PHYSICAL THERAPY v. FAMILY DOLLAR STORES, INC. and Ace American Insurance Co.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 9, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. McCowan, Jr., M. Dwayne Johnson, Todd A. Rossi, Jennifer Jones Thomas, Baton Rouge, LA, for Third Party Defendant-Relator, Focus Healthcare Management, Inc.

Bray Williams, Natchitoches, LA, for Plaintiff-Respondent, Broussard Physical Therapy.

Edward F. Stauss, III, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Respondents, Family Dollar Stores and Ace American Insurance Co.

Court composed of MARC T. AMY, J. DAVID PAINTER, and JAMES T. GENOVESE, Judges.


PAINTER, Judge.

Before this court on application for supervisory writs are eleven cases from the Office of Workers' Compensation (OWC), all raising the same jurisdictional issue: whether the Office of Workers' Compensation has jurisdiction over a contract dispute between the employer and a party with which the employer entered a preferred provider contract. Finding that the workers' compensation court has jurisdiction over these disputes, we affirm the ruling of the...

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