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Fifth Circuit rules floating dorm is a Jones Act vessel.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Withdrawing its own earlier opinion in the case of an injured barge cook, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit has ruled that a floating dormitory for dredge workers is indeed a vessel under the Jones Act, allowing the cook's case to go forward. (Holmes v. Atlantic Sounding Co., Nos. 04-30732, 04-30750, 2006 WL 133537 (5th Cir. Jan. 19, 2006).)

Addie Holmes worked on the BT-213, a floating barge equipped with housing and dining facilities for use by workers on dredging projects. Holmes alleged that as she put her belongings in her locker on the barge, the locker and a TV placed on top of it fell on her, injuring her. She sued the...

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