DINGER v. HORNBECK OFFSHORE SERVICES, INC.

Civil Action No. G-95-759.

968 F.Supp. 1185 (1997)

Rose DINGER, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Aaron J. Dinger, and as Next Friend of Craig M. Dinger, Minor, Crystal A. Dinger St. Amant, and Karen Dinger v. HORNBECK OFFSHORE SERVICES, INC., et al.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Galveston Division.

July 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest H. Cannon, Ernest Cannon & Associates, Houston, TX, for Rose Dinger, Crystal A. Dinger St. Amant, Karen Dinger.

Christopher L. Evans, Meyer Orlando and Evans, Houston, TX, for Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc., Hornbeck Offshore OP, Hornbeck Offshore, Inc., Tidewater Inc., Tidewater Marine Inc., Point Marine, Inc.

Dorothea L. Vidal, McGlinchey Stafford Lang, Dallas, TX, David E. Harrell, Jr., McGlinchey Stafford Lang, Houston, TX, for Halter Marine Group, Inc.

Darnell Bludworth, McGlinchey Stafford Lang, New Orleans, LA, Dorothea L. Vidal, McGlinchey Stafford Lang, Dallas, TX, David E. Harrell, Jr., McGlinchey Stafford Lang, Houston, TX, David R. Clouston, McGlinchey Stafford, Dallas, TX, for Trinity Industries, Trinity Industries Inc.

Joseph Ralph White, Christopher E. Carey, Montgomery Barnett Brown Read Hammond and Mintz, New Orleans, LA, for Petrol Boat Co., Petrol Marine Corp., Portal Corp., Portal Energy Corp.

George William Vie, III, Mills Shirley Eckel and Bassett, Galveston, TX, Gary Michael Pritchard, Charles W. Seymore & Associates, Houston, TX, Joseph H. Guffey, Jeanine R. Bermel, Husch and Eppenberger, St. Louis, MO, for Quincy Compressor Division of Coltec Industries, Inc., Coltec Industries Inc.

Peter Glenn Myer, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for U.S., U.S. Coast Guard.


ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

KENT, District Judge.

This is an admiralty tort action arising from the death of Aaron J. Dinger. Now before the Court is Third-party Defendant United States of America's Motion for Summary Judgment of March 24, 1997. For the reasons set forth below, the Motion is DENIED.

Plaintiffs' decedent, Aaron J. Dinger, was employed by a predecessor of Defendant Tidewater Marine, Inc. ("Tidewater...

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