Legal Opinion
Cooks v. Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided November 16, 2001No. 2000695PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CRAWLEY, Judge.
On May 14, 1998, Nancy Malone Cooks (the “worker”) was injured while working as a welder on a ship being built by Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Company, Inc. The worker was employed at the time by Yarbrough Machinery/American Industrial Marine. Yarbrough, however, had assigned her to work at Bender. The worker filed a claim for compensation under the Longshore Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (“LHWCA”), 33 U.S.C. § 901 et seq., against Yarbrough and sued Bender and two coemployees, Winfield McClintock and Jerry Webber (hereinafter referred to collectively as the…
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