BROWN v. EUROCOPTER S.A.

No. CIV.A.G-98-529.

111 F.Supp.2d 859 (2000)

Deborah BROWN, et al. v. EUROCOPTER S.A., American Eurocopter Corp., and Ampep, PLC.

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

August 23, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis G Fleming, Brian J Alexander, Andrew J. Maloney, Kreindler & Kreindler, New York, NY, James Housley Furman, Byrd Davis & Eisenberg, Austin, TX, for Deborah Brown, David Nathan Brown, Deceased, Christi Brown, plaintiffs.

Kenneth H. Laborde, Pulaksi Gieger & Laborde, New Orleans, LA, for Wausau Ins. Co., intervenor-plaintiff.

Kenneth Ross Citti, Citti & Associates, Houston, TX, for Eurocopter S.A., Ocopter Corporation, defendants.

Jad J Stepp, Stepp & Sullivan, Houston, TX, Kevin Troy Dossett, Preis Kraft et al, Houston, TX, Lisa J Savitt, Blank Rome et al, Washington, DC, for Ampep, PLC, defendant.


ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION THAT, ASSUMING DOHSA APPLIES, IT APPLIES AS AMENDED

KENT, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are the surviving widow and daughter of Nathan Brown, a helicopter pilot who was killed along with two passengers when his helicopter crashed into a fixed oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Plaintiffs brought suit under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ("OCSLA"), 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq., contending that state law...

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