prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 10,768 Eugene Bilderbeck v. World Wide Shipping Agency, a Corporation, Frankolyn Shipping, Ltd Star Shipping A/s

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.

Eugene Bilderbeck, an injured longshoreman, appeals from a summary judgment in favor of defendant shipowners. The district court granted summary judgment after striking from Bilderbeck’s pleading his allegations of liability based on a theory that the shipowner had placed on the market or in the workplace a dangerously defective product (ship). We affirm.

In 1972, Congress amended the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. § 901, et seq., to foreclose a shipowner’s previous “no fault” liability based on a theory of unseaworthiness or nondelegable…