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PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC. v. BARGER

No. 90-4022 Summary Calendar.

910 F.2d 276 (1990)

PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC. and American Home Assurance Company, Petitioners, v. Mary E. BARGER and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vance E. Ellefson, C. Theodore Alpaugh, III, Metairie, La., for petitioners.

Donald Shire, Solicitor of Labor, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Mary Ellen Blade, Beckenstein, Oxford, Radford & Johnson, Beaumont, Tex., for Mary E. Barger.

Joshua T. Gillelan, II, Office of the Solicitor of Labor, Benefits Review Bd., U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for Director.

Before GEE, SMITH, and WIENER, Circuit Judges:

PER CURIAM:

Walter Barger was killed when the helicopter he was piloting crashed on a flight between fixed platforms on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Barger was employed by Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. (hereafter "PHI"); and, after his death, PHI voluntarily instituted payment of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation benefits to his widow and children.

Mrs. Barger sued Bell Helicopter Textron, the manufacturer of the helicopter...

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