Blaise DIBENEDETTO
v.
NOBLE DRILLING COMPANY, et al.
Blaise DiBenedetto
v.
Noble Drilling Company, et al.
Blaise DiBenedetto
v.
Noble Drilling Company, et al.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 21, 2009.
Rehearing Denied November 18, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mickey P. Landry, Frank J. Swarr, David R. Cannella, Philip C. Hoffman, Landry & Swarr, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA and Richard I. Nemeroff, Delucca & Nemeroff, L.L.P., Spring, TX, for Plaintiff/Appellee.
Ronald J. Sholes, Mark J. Spansel, Roland M. Vandenweghe, Jr., Louis C. Lacour, Jr., Adams and Reese LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Appellees (Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Company, Inc. Angus Cooper, II, and David Cooper, Sr.).
Patrick E. Costello, Wilton E. Bland III, Jacques P. Degruy, Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Appellees (Joseph W. Harper and Sherman Jilek and Ports America Gulfport, Inc.).
Deborah D. Kuchler, McGready L. Richeson, Ernest G. Foundas, Michael H. Abraham, Robert E. Guidry, Laura E. Kraemer, Kuchler Polk Schell Weiner & Richeson, LLC, New Orleans, LA and Kevin M. Jordan, Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, Texas, and H. Alston Johnson III, Phelps Dunbar LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant/Appellant (Union Carbide Corporation).
Lynn M. Luker, Lynn Luker & Associates, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellant (Montello, Inc.).
Robert E. Williams IV, Richard P. Sulzer, Sulzer & Williams, L.L.C., Covington, LA, for Appellee (SSA Gulf, Inc., f/k/a Ryan Walsh and Frank E. Beeson, Jr.).
(Court composed of Judge DENNIS R. BAGNERIS, SR., Judge MICHAEL E. KIRBY, Judge DAVID S. GORBATY).
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
MICHAEL E. KIRBY, Judge.
This consolidated case involves three appeals of pre-trial judgments rendered in a personal injury lawsuit brought by plaintiff, Blaise DiBenedetto. Plaintiff filed suit against numerous defendants, including previous employers, claiming that he contracted malignant mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos while working for Noble Drilling Company from 1972 to 1974, and for various stevedoring companies on the New Orleans riverfront...
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