VIATOR v. HALLIBURTON CO.

No. 97 CA 1032.

713 So.2d 1281 (1998)

Zachary P. VIATOR v. HALLIBURTON COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Fernandez, Metairie, and Steve Gordon, Houston, for Plaintiff/Appellee Zachary P. Viator.

Patrick A. Juneau, Lafayette, for Defendant/Appellee Halliburton Company.

Sidney W. Degan, John E. Faherty, Jr., New Orleans, and D.C. Panagiotis, Lafayette, and Jacqueline Egan, Baton Rouge, for Defendant/Appellant Omega Service Industries, Inc.

Michael W. Adley, Lafayette, for Defendant/Appellee Lexington Insurance Company.

Before FOIL, WHIPPLE and KUHN, JJ.


KUHN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a trial court's judgment granting a motion for summary judgment filed by defendant-appellee, Halliburton Company ("Halliburton"), and ordering defendant Omega Services Inc. ("Omega") to indemnify and defend Halliburton in this lawsuit. We reverse and remand.

Factual and Procedural Background

On November 10, 1994, while in the course and scope of his employment as a welder helper for Omega, on board a jack-up boat...

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