Lonnie Pickle, Maryland Casualty Company, Intervenor-Appellee v. International Oilfield Divers, Inc.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a Jones Act judgment after a bench trial, and involves, inter alia, the application of the rule recently announced in Barrett v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc., 781 F.2d 1067 (5th Cir.1986) (en banc). Finding no merit in the challenges mounted against the district court’s findings on seaman status, defendant’s negligence, and plaintiff’s contributory negligence, we affirm on those issues. We vacate the judgment as cast, however, and remand for a reconsideration of the award of prejudgment interest and for consideration, as the court may find appropriate, of…