Doris Marie Darville, Etc., and Maryland Casualty Company, Intervenor-Appellant v. Texaco, Inc.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

The resolution of this appeal requires consideration of the “statutory employer” designation under Louisiana’s workers’ compensation regime. In Ortego v. Union Oil Co. of California, 667 F.2d 1241, 1242 (5th Cir. 1982), and Blanchard v. Engine & Gas Compressor Services, Inc., 613 F.2d 65, 71 (5th Cir. 1980), we stated that the proper test for answering this query is “whether the activity done by the injured employee or his actual immediate employer is part of the usual or customary practice of the principal or others in the same operational business.” Relying on this…