IN RE LARRY DOIRON, INC.

No. 16-30217.

869 F.3d 338 (2017)

IN RE: In the Matter of the Complaint of LARRY DOIRON, INCORPORATED as Owner and Operator of the Barge Pogo and M/V BILLY JOE for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability Larry Doiron, Incorporated, Plaintiff-Appellee Robert Jackson, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee v. Specialty Rental Tools & Supply, L.L.P.; Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.; Zurich American Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

REVISED March 7, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan David Ezkovich , Attorney, Clarence William Emory , Georges M. Legrand , Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett, L.L.C., Aaron James Weidenhaft , Ezkovich & Company, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mark Lynn Clark , Robert Jeffrey Bridger, Esq. , Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Harold Kemler Watson , Chaffe McCall, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Alan R. Davis , Ivan Mauricio Rodriguez , Chaffe McCall, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Amici Curiae Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Liberty International Underwriters.

Richard K. Leefe , Attorney, Leefe, Gibbs, Sullivan, Dupre' & Aldous, L.L.C., Metairie, LA, for Amicus Curiae Crescent Energy Services, L.L.C.

Before DAVIS, DENNIS, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.


We are yet again required to determine whether a contract is a maritime one. Here, the focus is on a contract to perform flow-back services to improve the performance of an offshore natural-gas well when performance eventually required the use of a crane barge. Plaintiffs...

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