Haleigh McBride v. Estis Well Service, L.L.

HAYNES, Circuit Judge:

This consolidated Jones Act and general maritime law case arises out of an accident on a barge in the navigable waterways of Louisiana. The owner of the barge, Defendant Estis Well Services, L.L.C., appeals from the district court’s judgment in favor of plaintiffs Virgie Ann Romero McBride, individually and on behalf of the minor child I.M.S., and Saul C. Touchet. 1 For the reasons explained below, we AFFIRM.

I. Background

This is the second time this case has come before our court. The first appeal was interlocutory, and we held in an en banc opinion that McBride 2 and…