Giganti v. Polsteam Shipping Co.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

PAMELA K. CHEN, District Judge:

In this maritime case, Plaintiff Michael Giganti (“Plaintiff’), a longshoreman, slipped and fell while discharging sugar from the M/S PILICA (“PILICA” or the “Vessel”). He brings this negligence action against Defendants Polsteam Shipping Co. (“Polsteam”), the owner pro hac vice of the Vessel, and CSC Sugar, LLC, the charterer of the Vessel, (“CSC”) (collectively, the “Defendants”) under the Long-shore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (“LHCWA”), 33 U.S.C. § 905(b).

Defendants’ individually move for summary judgment, each arguing that there…