Louisiana Court of Appeal December 15, 2004, No. 39,021-WCA (Hawthorne v. Gilbane/General Motors Corp.)

|, WILLIAMS, J.

The claimant, Michael Hawthorne (“Hawthorne”), filed a disputed claim for compensation in the Office of Workers’ Compensation (“OWC”),1 seeking supplemental earnings benefits (“SEBs”), medical benefits, penalties and attorney fees from his statutory employer, General Motors Corporation (“GM”) and its compensation insurer, Zurich American Insurance Company (“Zurich”).