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Article: Man fired for positive test failed to show accident. (In the Courts).
- Article from:
- Drug Detection Report
- Article date:
- June 27, 2002
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Drug test results are admissible evidence in state compensation hearings, a Louisiana court concluded.
The Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit, upheld the decision of the Office of Workers' Compensation to deny the claim, requiring the former employee to pay litigation costs.
The employee, Frank Bolton, was hired by BE&K Construction as a laborer and was required to take a drug test on the day he was hired. His urine specimen was sent to Laboratory Specialists Inc. (LSI) for analysis and he began working, using a jackhammer to break up concrete, collecting broken concrete and loading it onto a wheelbarrow that he pushed up an incline to a dumping ...