A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a worker’s untruthful response on a pre-employment medical questionnaire forfeited his entitlement to benefits for a back injury.
Case: Stewart v. Cajun Industries LLC, No. 2025 CA 0502, 07/02/2026, published.
Facts: In 2018, Tyler Stewart was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He sought treatment from Dr. Kevin McCarthy for back pain.
McCarthy ordered a magnetic resonance imaging scan, which indicated that Stewart had facet effusions, disc bulges and disc herniations.
McCarthy performed a facet joint injection on Stewart and then releas...
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