NOBLE DRILLING (US) INC. v. FOUNTAIN

No. 01-06-00426-CV.

238 S.W.3d 432 (2007)

NOBLE DRILLING (US) INC., Noble Drilling (Paul Romano) Inc., Shell Offshore, Inc., and Shell Deepwater Development, Inc., Appellants, v. Kelly FOUNTAIN, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Overruled September 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey R. Bale, Lewis E. Henderson, Roberts, Markel, & Bale P.C., Houston, TX, for Appellants.

John C. Schwambach Jr., John W. Stevenson Jr., Mark T. Murray, John Stevenson & Associates, P.C., Houston, TX, for Appellee.

Panel consists of Chief Justice RADACK and Justices JENNINGS and BLAND.


OPINION

TERRY JENNINGS, Justice.

Appellants, Noble Drilling (US) Inc. and Noble Drilling (Paul Romano) Inc. (collectively, "Noble") and Shell Offshore, Inc. and Shell Deepwater Development, Inc. (collectively, "Shell"), challenge the trial court's judgment, rendered after a jury verdict, awarding appellee, Kelly Fountain, $1,345,900, in Fountain's suit against appellants for negligence under the Jones Act1 and general maritime...

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