Lonthier v. Northwest Insurance

YERON, District Judge.

RULING

This matter comes before the Court on the motion of the plaintiffs, Daniel and Roxanne Lonthier, to remand these consolidated actions to the Thirty-Eighth Judicial District Court in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The two federal suits began as only one suit in state court. Daniel Lonthier sued his alleged employer’s insurers, Northwest Insurance Company and Mid-Continent Underwriters, Inc., under the Jones Act and both Lonthiers sued Sabine Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., and Union Oil Company of California under general maritime tort law. Sabine and Union each…