Court Upholds TTD Benefits, Penalties and Fee Award to Nurse

The Louisiana Court of Appeals upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits, medical expenses, travel expenses, $8,000 in penalties and $10,000 in attorney fees to a registered nurse who injured her back during a patient transfer. Case: Colwell v. Summit Retirement Center, No. 12-1186, 03/06/2013, published.Facts: Cindy Colwell worked for the Summit Retirement Center as a registered nurse. She alleged that she began to feel burning and tingling in her neck after transferring a heavyset patient from a wheelchair to a bed in February 2011. An MRI showed a C5-6 disc protrusion in C...