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McINTOSH v. OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP.

No. CA-2741.

470 So.2d 184 (1985)

Malcolm Ian McINTOSH v. OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied June 28, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Robinson, Due, Dodson, deGravelles, Robinson & Caskey, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Timothy F. Burr, McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini & Lang, New Orleans, for appellee—Occidental Petroleum.

Henry A. King, Louis Simon, II, Patrick Wartelle, Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, New Orleans, for appellee—J. Ray McDermott.

Before GULOTTA, KLEES and CIACCIO, JJ.

GULOTTA, Judge.

In this Jones Act and maritime tort claim by a worker injured on an offshore drilling platform, plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing his suit on exceptions of prescription. We affirm.

Malcolm McIntosh was injured on July 25, 1977, while working on an oil drilling platform known as the "Piper Alpha" in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. Almost three years later, on July 20, 1980, McIntosh filed a Jones Act and maritime tort claim...

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