MILLER v. GRIFFIN-ALEXANDER DRILLING CO.

Nos. 88-4388, 88-4588.

873 F.2d 809 (1989)

Kally C. MILLER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GRIFFIN-ALEXANDER DRILLING CO., Defendants, Richard B. Sanders, M.D., James R. Bozeman, M.D. and Walter B. Comeaux, Jr., M.D., Defendants-Appellees. GRIFFIN-ALEXANDER DRILLING CO., Third-Party Plaintiff, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard B. SANDERS, M.D., James R. Bozeman, M.D. and Walter B. Comeaux, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Reich, Stephanie Chisholm Holdebrandt, Terriberry, Carroll & Yancey, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

L. Paul Foreman, Raggio, Cappel, Chozen & Berniard, Lake Charles, La., for Sanders.

Harmon F. Roy, Alan K. Breaud, Roy, Carmouche, Bivins, Judice, Henke & Breaud, Lafayette, La., for Bozeman.

Charles J. Boudreaux, Sr., Pugh & Boudreaux, Lafayette, La., for Comeaux.

Before GEE, SMITH and DUHE, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Facts

The plaintiff, Kally Miller, was employed by defendant Griffin-Alexander Drilling Company as a mud man aboard the drilling barge GA-III when he fell from a ladder and injured his leg. Two days later Dr. Sanders, one of the three medical defendants, examined and treated him on shore. Dr. Sanders allowed the plaintiff to return to the GA-III.

Several days later, Dr. Comeaux, the second medical defendant, referred the...

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