GRAHAM v. OFFSHORE SPECIALTY FABRICATORS

No. 2009 CA 0117.

37 So.3d 1002 (2010)

Marshall GRAHAM v. OFFSHORE SPECIALTY FABRICATORS, INC. and Cashman Equipment Corporation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy K. Lamy, Barker, Boudreaux, Lamy & Foley, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee/Appellant, Marshall Graham.

Kevin J. LaVie, Phelps Dunbar LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant/Appellee, Offshore Specialty Fabricators, Inc.

Joseph P. Tynan, Patrick E. O'Keefe, Diana B. Moore, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant/Appellee, Cashman Equipment Corporation.

Before PARRO, KUHN, and McDONALD, JJ.


PARRO, J.

This appeal involves a judgment in favor of Marshall Graham, who was injured in a fall on the deck of a dredge barge owned by Cashman Equipment Corporation (CEC), while working as a deckhand on a tugboat owned by his employer, Offshore Specialty Fabricators, Inc. (Offshore). A jury found CEC and Offshore were both at fault and Graham was contributorily negligent; it awarded Graham damages, but limited CEC's liability to the value of the dredge barge, which...

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