DUCRE v. MINE SAFETY APPLIANCES

Civ. A. No. 80-4338.

573 F.Supp. 388 (1983)

Julius DUCRE v. MINE SAFETY APPLIANCES, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

October 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary M. Zwain, Johnston & Duplass, Robert M. Johnson, New Orleans, La., for Pulmosan Safety Equipment Corp.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitvent, Carrere & Denegre, James L. Selman, II, New Orleans, La., for Mine Safety Appliances Co.

James L. Donovan, Metairie, La., for Transamerica Ins.

Orlando G. Bendana and Wayne H. Carlton, Jr., Bendana & Carlton, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Bailey & Leininger, Leon A. Aucoin and Mark D. Kuss, Metairie, La., for intervenor.

Lawrence J. Ernst, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, La., for Pulmosan Safety Equipment Corp.

Andre J. Mouledcux, New Orleans, La., for Traders & General Ins. Co.

Craig R. Nelson, Hulse, Nelson & Wanek, New Orleans, La., for American Universal Ins. Co., Clemco Industries.

Sondra A. Cheek, Bogalusa, La., for L. Cunningham, M. Altmann, E. Cunningham and A. Seligman, R. Seligman, C. Smith, H. Gaines, J. Henderson.

Thomas E. Loehn, New Orleans, La., for Commercial Union Ins. Co.

Bruce J. Borrello, Metairie, La., for Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Emery N. Voorhies, Normann & Normann, for Fidelity & Cas. Ins. Co.

Frank J. Peragine, Michael R. Daigle, New Orleans, La., for American Optical Corp.

Charles Hanemann, Jr., Henderson, Hanemann & Morris, New Orleans, La., for 3M.

Vance E. Ellefson, William J. Larzelere, Jr., Anthony J. Staines, Lugenbuhl, Larzelere & Ellefson, New Orleans, La., for Robert Gardebled, Harold Halter, Richard Neyland, Mirl Halter, James Dubuisson, Codee Brogan, Joseph Norra and Calvin Luc.


OPINION

ARCENEAUX, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in these consolidated cases claim damages resulting from allegedly contracting silicosis while employed at various shipyards in Louisiana.

Initially filed as individual suits and allotted to various sections of this Court, discovery and the filing of various pre-trial motions pointed to the presence of two issues of Louisiana law — to be defined and...

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