Jacques v. Kalmar Industries, AB

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Today, we decide that a workman’s compensation earner’s right to subrogation under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act reaches its insured worker’s recovery of punitive damages from a third-party.

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Marienne Jacques sued Kalmar Industries AB, Kalmar LMV AB, Kalmar, Inc., Stra-ehan Shipping Company, and Alfred Allen Price for the wrongful death of her husband, Richard L. Jacques. Mr. Jacques was a marine surveyor who lived in Galveston, Texas. His employer, World Marine Associates, Inc., sent him to work for Strachan at a dockyard in Mobile,…