Whitehorse Marine, Inc. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff, Whitehorse Marine, Inc. (“Whitehorse”), filed this action seeking to recover monies spent in defending and settling a personal injury action brought against it by one of its employees, Guy Leon Webb. Mr. Webb was injured while working as a deckhand aboard the Whitehorse tug, “PEGASUS II,” when the tug touched bottom in the southern access channel leading to the Craney Island disposal area. At the time of Webb’s injury, the PEGASUS II was towing a loaded Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (“Great Lakes”)…