RIVERE v. NPC SERVICES, INC.

No. 92 CA 1873.

625 So.2d 742 (1993)

Floyd J. RIVERE and Janice Mary Rivere v. NPC SERVICES, INC., NUS, Corporation; Exxon Corporation; the Dow Chemical Company; Ethyl Corporation; Allied Chemical Corporation; ICI Americas, Inc. (formerly Rubicon Chemicals, Inc.); Celanese Corporation (formerly American Hoechst Corporation, formerly Foster Grant Company, Inc.); Uniroyal, Inc.; Copolymer Rubber and Chemical Corporation; and Shell Chemical, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

October 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Herrington, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellants Floyd and Janice Rivere.

John F. Derenbecker, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee NPC Services, Inc.

Leonard Cardenas, III, Baton Rouge, for U.S. Fidelity and Guar. Co. and Harmony Corp.

Andrew G. Meyers, Lafayette, for NUS Corp.

John I. Moore, Baton Rouge, for Ethyl Corp.

Dan Edward West, Baton Rouge, for American Home Assur. Co., et al.

Gary M. Zwain, Metairie, for Pacific Ins. Co.

Paul H. Spaht, Baton Rouge, for Continental Cas. Co.

Before WATKINS, SHORTESS and FOGG, JJ.


WATKINS, Judge.

This is a tort suit by Floyd J. and Janice Rivere against several corporations for injuries allegedly received by Mr. Rivere at the Louisiana site of a hazardous waste cleanup where he was a supervisor from October 28, 1987, until January 15, 1988.

Defendant, NPC Services, Inc. (NPC), filed a motion for summary judgment, which was granted1 on the ground that NPC was plaintiff's statutory employer under the two-contract...

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