Billie J. Atkinson v. Gates, McDonald & Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a state-law cause of action addressed by the LHWCA is preempted and that \the LHWCA is plainly preemptive of any state law claim for intentional or bad faith wrongful refusal to pay benefits due under the [LHWCA]\
• dismissing claims for bad faith failure to pay compensation based on exclusivity of DBA and LHWCA
• “[T]he LHWCA impliedly grants the employer’s insurance carrier ... the same immunity which it grants the employer.”
• LHWCA exclusivity provision preempted employee’s state law bad faith claim against benefits administrator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).