Brown v. Eurocopter S.A.

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION THAT, ASSUMING DOHSA APPLIES, IT APPLIES AS AMENDED

KENT, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are the surviving widow and daughter of Nathan Brown, a helicopter pilot who was killed along with two passengers when his helicopter crashed into a fixed oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Plaintiffs brought suit under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”), 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq., contending that state law, via the OCSLA, governed this wrongful death action. The Court rejected Plaintiffs’ contention, holding instead that the applicable law was the Death On The…