Legal Opinion
Jesse Earl McCormack v. Noble Drilling Corporation, Chevron Oil Company, Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company, Intervenor-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 12, 1979No. 77-2606PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judge:
Jesse McCormack was severely injured in the course of his employment on a submersible barge oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. A jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana found defendants Chevron Oil Company 1 and Noble Drilling Corporation negligent and found that the negligence was a proximate cause of McCormack’s injuries. McCormack’s damages were set at $470,000 but, because the jury placed twenty percent of the fault for the accident with McCor-mack, the district court entered judgment for $376,000. Chevron…
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