Legal Opinion
McIntosh v. Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 8, 1985No. CA-2741PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GULOTTA, Judge.
In this Jones Act and maritime tort claim by a worker injured on an offshore drilling platform, plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing his suit on exceptions of prescription. We affirm.
Malcolm McIntosh was injured on July 25, 1977, while working on an oil drilling platform known as the “Piper Alpha” in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. Almost three years later, on July 20, 1980, McIntosh filed a Jones Act and maritime tort claim in the Civil District Court in Orleans Parish against Occidental Petroleum Corporation, et al. (owners of the platform), Bawden Drilling,…
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