Jay Olan Wilson v. Job, Inc., Fugro McClelland Marine Geosciences, Inc. v. Edison Chouest Offshore

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

In a battle between vessel owner and time charterer to determine the appropriate share of the plaintiff’s settlement to be borne by each of them, the district court entered summary judgment and later a final judgment in favor of vessel owner and against charterer because plaintiff’s injuries were found to have been caused during an activity “arising out of charterer’s actual drilling operations” and thus, according to the charter’s reciprocal indemnity agreement, charterer was held liable and was, therefore, unable to recover from the P & I policy in which it was…