FREDERICK v. MOBIL OIL CORP.

No. 84-3216.

765 F.2d 442 (1985)

Donald Ray FREDERICK, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., Intervenor-Appellee, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, Elevating Boats, Inc., Defendant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 28, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christovich & Kearney, R.K. Christovich, New Orleans, La., for Mobil Oil Corp.

Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, Lawrence S. Kullman, New Orleans, La., for Donald Frederick.

Timothy M. Waller, Sr., Metairie, La., for Aetna.

George J. Dowd, Braithwaite, La., for Elevating Boats.

Before RANDALL, JOHNSON and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Mobil Oil Corporation, the owner of a fixed offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, challenges a judgment against it in the sum of $305,818.52, plus interest from the date of judicial demand, for negligently causing the injury of a subcontractor's employee. Mobil asserts that the district court erred (1) by refusing, on the strength of the immunity from tort liability granted to employers by the Longshoremen...

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