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HARTFORD ACC. & INDEM. CO. v. OCEANCARRIER SHIPHOLDING OF BELGIUM N.V.

No. 85-3574.

799 F.2d 1093 (1986)

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. OCEANCARRIER SHIPHOLDING OF BELGIUM N.V. and ABC Container Lines N.V., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Murphy, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, Daniel L. Daboval, Kenneth J. Servay, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

James C. Cockfield, Metairie, La., plaintiff-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, RUBIN and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A longshoreman employed by a stevedore suffered personal injury while loading cargo aboard a vessel and was paid worker's compensation. The insurer of the stevedore seeks to recover the amount it paid the longshoreman from the vessel as a third party tortfeasor. The district court held that the negligence of the vessel's crew, together with the negligence of the stevedore, caused the injury, and therefore the loss to the stevedore. We...

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