Plaquemines Equipment & Machine Co. v. Neuman

Six years after a Deputy Commissioner had entered a continuing compensation award in favor of claimant, a District Court, considering a third-party-tort suit brought by the claimant allegedly arising out of the same episode, found that the plaintiff (claimant) was entirely unworthy of belief and that the injury-producing event had not, in fact, occurred. Accordingly, the employer and his compensation insurer petitioned the Deputy Commissioner under 33 U.S.C.A. § 922 to reconsider and set aside the never appealed 1964 award. The Deputy Commissioner declined to modify the 1964 order as…