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Admiralty Law Keyed to Maraist
Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
Citation:
395 U.S. 352, 89 S.Ct. 1835, 23 L.Ed.2d 360, 1969 AMC 1082 (1969)Facts
The case involves two separate fatal accidents occurring on artificial island drilling platforms located on the Continental Shelf more than a marine league from the Louisiana coast. In the Dore case, the decedent was working on a crane mounted on an artificial island when the crane collapsed onto a barge, killing him. In the Rodrigue case, the decedent fell to his death from a derrick on a drilling platform. The families of both men brought actions under the Death on the High Seas Act, which provides an admiralty remedy for deaths occurring on the high seas, and under Louisiana law, which was allegedly made applicable by the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Louisiana law would have allowed recovery for additional elements of damage beyond what was available under the Death on the High Seas Act. The lower courts held that the Death on the High Seas Act provided the exclusive remedy.
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