RAINEY v. ENTERGY GULF STATES, INC.

No. 2009-C-572.

35 So.3d 215 (2010)

Vera M. RAINEY v. ENTERGY GULF STATES, INC., and Mike Case.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beall & Thies, LLC, William Walter Thies, Russell W. Beall, and Leonard Cardenas, III, Baton Rouge, for Applicant.

Flanagan Partners, LLP, Stephen Matthew Pesce, Brandon C. Briscoe, Thomas More Flanagan, Harold Jude Flanagan, New Orleans, Sean Patrick Brady, and Entergy Services, Inc., John Allen Braymer, Cory Rabin Cahn, for Respondent.


KNOLL, Justice.*

This writ concerns whether the affirmative defense of statutory employer tort immunity can be urged when the written contract providing for this relationship was not hand-signed by the principal, but was hand-signed only by the contractor.

Plaintiff, Vera Rainey, an employee of the contractor, ABB C-E Services, Inc. (ABB) was injured in the course of her employment at the business of the principal, Entergy Gulf...

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