Lebouef v. Island Operating Co.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge: *

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Raymond Lebouef was injured on August 23, 2005, while working on a fixed oil platform and sued Newfield Exploration Company on September 29, 2006, under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Lebouef amended his complaint on September 18, 2007, to add Island Operating Company, Inc. (“Island Operating”) as a defendant. The parties do not dispute the applicability of Texas’s two-year statute of limitations to this personal-injury action.

Island Operating’s answer to the second amended complaint did not raise a limitations bar but only stated, without explanation,…