Hubert J. Wedlock v. Gulf Mississippi Marine Corp., J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc. v. Defelice Marine Contractors, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• \The passive negligence doctrine has been held inapplicable where the would-be indemnitee is guilty of acts or omissions that could have proximately caused the injury complained of.\
• “The passive negligence doctrine has been held inapplicable where the would-be indemnitee is guilty of acts or omissions that could have proximately caused the injury complained of.”
• “Indeed, the classic case of passive negligence occurs only when one joint tortfeasor creates a danger that the other (passive) tortfeasor merely fails to discover or to remedy.”
• \the classic case of passive negligence occurs . . . when one joint tortfeasor creates a danger that the other (passive) tortfeasor merely fails to discover or to remedy\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).