Moll v. Brown & Root Inc.

In this consolidated appeal of a grant of summary judgment, we AFFIRM the district court’s conclusion that Plaintiffs/Appellants’ claims against Appellees, ABB Lummus Global, Inc. and Combustion Engineering, Inc. (collectively “Lummus”) and H.B. Zachry Company (“Zachry”), are perempted under Louisiana Revised Statute Section 9:2772. 1

BACKGROUND

Plaintiff/Appellant, Mark N. Moll (“Moll”) suffered injuries while working on an industrial furnace (“furnace twenty-one”) at Union Carbide’s Olefins II Unit of its petrochemical plant in Taft, Louisiana. The Olefins II Unit is a seven-story structure…