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HAWKINS v. UNITED OVERSEAS EXPORT LINES, INC.

Civ. Nos. Y-79-1320, K-78-1373.

490 F.Supp. 138 (1980)

Howard HAWKINS et al. v. UNITED OVERSEAS EXPORT LINES, INC. Frederick HOUSTON et al. v. MURMANSK SHIPPING COMPANY.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

April 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray I. Resnick, Thomas M. Meachum, and A. Thomas Beckman, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs Howard Hawkins and Katherine Hawkins.

R. Roger Drechsler, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff John T. Clark & Son of Maryland, Inc.

Richard R. Jackson, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for defendant United Overseas Export Lines.

Bernard M. Goldstein, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs Frederick Houston and Willie Mae Houston.

Eugene A. Edgett, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Randall C. Coleman, and Warren B. Daly, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for defendant Murmansk Shipping Co.

JOSEPH H. YOUNG, District Judge.

These cases have been consolidated for the purpose of resolving certain issues relating to the role of the employer or insurance carrier in suits under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (the Act). 33 U.S.C. §§ 901 et seq.

Both cases involve a typical fact situation. The plaintiff was employed by a stevedoring company which had been hired by a vessel to provide stevedoring services. It...

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