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OCHOA v. EMPLOYERS NAT. INS. CO.

No. 82-3618.

724 F.2d 1171 (1984)

Jorge OCHOA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EMPLOYERS NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. et al., Intervenors-Appellees, Waterman Steamship Corp., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 18, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owen J. Bradley, Michael R. Guidry, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas W. Thorne, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Employers & N.O. Stevedores.

Before WISDOM, REAVLEY and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 18, 1984.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Our question is how to allocate money, recovered from a negligent shipowner, as among the injured longshoreman, his attorney, and the stevedore's insurance carrier. We must apply Bloomer v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 445 U.S. 74, 100 S.Ct. 925, 63 L.Ed.2d 215 (1980), to a case in which the recovery is insufficient to cover both the attorney...

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