Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, as Partial Assignee and Subrogee of Alfonse Marchica v. United States

*258WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

Alfonse Marchica, a longshoreman employed by Monti Marine Corporation, was injured in the course of his employment on March 18, 1958 aboard defendant’s vessel “General Buckner.” On November 16, 1959 Marchica accepted compensation from plaintiff Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, his employer’s workmen’s compensation insurance carrier, under an award pursuant to Section 33 (33 U.S.C.A. § 933) of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq. On March 7,1960, less than four months after Marchica’s acceptance of the compensation award,…