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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

COMPLETE OPINION - Handed down on the 14th day of January, 2003.

BY: KNOLL, J.:


2002-C- 0439 MICHAEL J. FONTENOT v. REDDELL VIDRINE WATER DISTRICT, ET AL.
C/W (Office Of Worker'S Compensation District 2)
2002-C- 0442 KENNETH HAYNES v. WILLIAMS FENCE AND ALUMINUM(Office Of
C/W Workers' Compensation, District 2)

2002-C- 0478 KENNETH HAYNES v. WILLIAMS FENCE AND ALUMINUM(Office Of
Workers' Compensation, District 2)
For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the appellate court's
decisions in Fontenot v. Reddell Vidrine Water Dist., 2001-0762
(La. App. 3 Cir. 1/9/02), 815 So. 2d 895 and Haynes v. Williams
Fence and Aluminum, 2001-0026 (La. App. 3 Cir. 1/9/02), 805 So.
2d 233 which allowed multiple penalties under LA. REV. STAT. ANN.
Sec. 23:1201(F) for multiple violations regarding the payment of
compensation and medical benefit claims. However, we reverse the
appellate court's decision considered by us in Haynes v. Williams
Fence and Aluminum, 2002-0478 (La. 4/26/02), 813 So. 2d 1096, on
Williams's discontinuance of vocational rehabilitation services
and remand that aspect of this case for consideration by the
appellate court of Haynes's claim for attorneys' fees.
2002-C-0439, AFFIRMED.
2002-C-0442, AFFIRMED.
2002-C-0478, REVERSED AND REMANDED.

VICTORY, J., concurs in part and dissents in part and assigns

reasons.

1/14/03

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
NUM BER 2002-C-0439
MICHAEL J. FONTENOT
Versus
REDDELL VIDRINE WATER DISTRICT, ET AL.
Consolidated With
NUM BERS 2002-C-0442

AND 2002-C-0478
KENNETH HAYNES
Versus
WILLIAMS FENCE AND ALUMINUM
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL


THIRD CIRCUIT, WORKERS

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