Fred H. Ainsworth and Gloria Ainsworth v. Shell Offshore, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the presence of a “company man” aboard a platform alone does not support an imposition of liability upon a principal for an independent contractor’s acts
• listing pile driving, storage of toxic gas, blasting with explosives, and crop dusting as examples of ultrahazardous activities
• “Louisiana law will not support the imposition of liability upon [the principal] for failure to intercede in [the independent contractor’s] decision to work without lights.”
• “We conclude that Louisiana law will not support the imposition of liability upon Shell for failure to intercede in Hercules’ decision to work without lights.”
• pile driving, storage of toxic gas, blasting with explosives, and crop dusting are examples of ultrahazardous activities
• “Louisiana law will not support the imposition of liability upon [a principal] for failure to intercede in [an independent contractor’s] decision to work [in an unsafe manner].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).