Spears v. Broussard’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lemire v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc. · 514 So. 2d 7 - Brooks v. Chicola · 602 So. 2d 40 - Crowley v. City of Lafayette · 556 So. 2d 931 - Denton v. Cormier · 596 So. 2d 272 - St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Smith
Most-quoted passages
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“The legislature obviously felt the Brooks application was the result of an incorrect interpretation of the statute as it enacted the amendment soon afterwards .... The 1989 amendment clarified what the legislature meant by "damages" [in the statute as originally enacted].... The amendment tells the courts that the legislature never intended a distinction between general and work related damages. The employer always had a right to recover from the first dollar of the damage award and the employee always had to wait his turn for the excess, if any. From this perspective, nothing of substantive value is taken from the employee as it was never intended he have any preference over his employer in the award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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