Legal Opinion
Miller v. Slam Offshore
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided May 11, 1999No. Civil Action 96-1390, 96-1568PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND REASONS
MENTZ, District Judge.
Plaintiff Jerry L. Miller alleges that he was injured while working on a fixed offshore platform located on the Outer Continental Shelf adjacent to Louisiana. Miller alleges that he struck his head on a low-hanging pipe of the platform’s Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) unit. 1 The platform is owned by Marathon Oil Company; it was designed by McDermott, Inc.
Defendant McDermott filed the present motion for summary judgment on the ground that the ten-year peremptory period set forth in Louisiana Revised Statute § 9:2772 bars this action. 2 That…
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