BATH IRON WORKS CORP. v. WHITE

No. 78-1002.

584 F.2d 569 (1978)

BATH IRON WORKS CORPORATION and Commercial Union Companies, Petitioners, v. Russell E. WHITE, and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Hanson, Portland, Me., with whom Stephen Hessert and Norman & Hanson, Portland, Me., were on brief, for petitioners.

Joshua T. Gillelan, II, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., with whom Carin Ann Clauss, Sol. of Labor, and Laurie M. Streeter, Associate Sol., Washington, D. C., were on brief, for respondent Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.

Patrick N. McTeague, Brunswick, Me., with whom McTeague, Higbee & Tierney, Brunswick, Me., was on brief, for claimant-respondent.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

The Benefits Review Board of the Department of Labor, affirming in part the decision of the administrative law judge, ordered Bath Iron Works Corp. and its insurance carrier, Commercial Union Insurance Co. (Bath), to pay claimant, Russell E. White, a Bath employee, permanent partial disability benefits under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §§ 901 et seq. (Supp. V 1975). On this...

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