United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit by an injured worker, judgment enforcing a twenty percent additional sum for late payment of an award is affirmed where filing a compensation order starting the ten-day time period for payment does not need to include receipt of the order by the parties, and a Louisiana statute did not exempt the defendant from paying the twenty percent additional amount.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/17/2009
• Published 02/18/2009

Judges

• LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges, and ENGELHARDT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tony Bryson Jobe, Law Office of Tony B. Jobe, Madisonville, LA, for Carillo.


• For Appellees:
  
• Collins C. Rossi, Covington, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.