Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. v. United States

STRUM, Circuit Judge.

Three longshoremen were injured, one fatally, when a heavy steel hatch cover fell on them while unloading the No. 4 lower hold of a Navy cargo vessel, the U.S.S. Okaloosa, at Pensacola, Florida, on September 1, 1948.

Appellant, Fireman’s Fund Indemnity Company, libellant below, was the insurance carrier of the stevedoring firm employing said longshoremen. Having paid to date the compensation awards made under the Longshoremen’s Act 1 to the injured employees and their dependents, appellant instituted these .libels in personam to recover from the United States all sums paid…