DIRECTOR, O.W.C.P. v. BATH IRON WORKS CORP.

No. 87-1920.

853 F.2d 11 (1988)

DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, (Ethel H. Cain, Claimant), Petitioner, v. BATH IRON WORKS CORPORATION and Commercial Union Insurance Company, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua T. Gillelan II, Office of the Solicitor, with whom George R. Salem, Sol. of Labor, Donald S. Shire, Associate Sol., and J. Michael O'Neill, Washington, D.C., Counsel for Longshore, were on brief for petitioner.

Stephen Hessert with whom Robert W. Bower, Jr., and Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, Portland, Me., were on brief for respondents.

Before BOWNES, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This proceeding arises under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §§ 901-950 (1982 & Supp. II 1984) ("LHWCA" or "the Act"), and more specifically, under that section of the Act which authorizes the courts of appeal to review "final order[s]" of the Benefits Review Board ("Board"). See id. at § 921(c).1 But the instant petition, like a fish that has not...

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