Lindsey v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

OPINION

ARCENEAUX, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Edward B. Lindsey (“Lindsey”) instituted this suit based on diversity jurisdiction against Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (“Chevron”) for injuries sustained on March 8, 1980, while working in Chevron’s South Pass Block 24 Field E-5 Bunkhouse near Burrwood, Louisiana on the East Bank of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River. Chevron impleaded Lindsey’s employer and intervenor herein, Oceanic Butler, Inc. (“OBI”), an offshore catering and housekeeping company which had contracted with Chevron to provide catering services to a number of its manned…