Koesler v. Harvey Applicators, Inc.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, District Judge:

An insurance company, by motion for a summary judgment, contends that a direct action may not be brought against the liability insurer of a company conducting operations on a drilling platform located on the Outer Continental Shelf, for injuries allegedly sustained by negligence in those operations. Most of the currents of decision would carry the court toward the conclusion that such an action lies; the cross currents of controlling contrary decisions by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Nations v. Morris, 5th Cir. 1973, 483 F.2d 577, and in Continental Oil…