Legal Opinion
Mrs. Aage Lasse Alvestad, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Aage Lasse Alvestad and Their Minor Daughter v. Monsanto Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 1, 1982No. 80-2157, 81-2015PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Aage Lasse Alvestad, a citizen of Norway, was killed on March 22, 1975, while working as a diver off the semisubmersible oil rig Borgney Dolphin in the North Sea. The Borgney Dolphin was a Norwegian vessel operating under a contract with Monsanto Oil Company of the United Kingdom, Inc. (Monsanto UK), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the United States-based Monsanto Company. The 3X Diving Company, Alvestad’s immediate employer, had contracted with Monsanto UK to provide diving services for the drilling operation.
Alvestad’s widow filed suit against Monsanto and…
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