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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

NO. 97-C-0397

JERRY D. CLARK V. MRS. FIELDS COOKIES

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH CIRCUIT OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION DISTRICT EIGHT MARCUS, Justice*

Jerry Clark was injured in the course and scope of his employment Company, employer, with Mrs. Fields Cookies. Hartford carrier total Insurance for his

the

worker's

compensation paid weekly

insurance temporary

voluntarily

disability

payments to Clark from the date of injury, May 22, 1991, through July 12, 1993. On July 15, 1993, Hartford sent Clark a notice

advising him that it was suspending all further compensation payments because medical he had failed When the to appear for an independent Clark released was in

examination. in an

notice prison.

was He

sent, was

incarcerated March, 1994.1

out-of-state

In August, 1994, thirteen months after receipt of the last
*

compensation

payment,

Clark

filed

a

claim

against

Mrs.

Traylor, J. not on panel.

Rule IV, Part 2,

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