United States Fifth Circuit

Where all questions regarding employee's Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act compensation claim have already been resolved, the court lacks jurisdiction to decide whether issues involving contractual indemnification provisions are "questions in respect of" claims under Section 919(a) of the Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2001
• Published 08/07/2001

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and ALDISERT  and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• B. Ralph Bailey (argued), Law Office of B. Ralph Bailey, Mandeville, LA, for Petitioners., Peter L. Hilbert, Jr., Darnell S. Bludworth (argued), Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein McAlister & Hilbert, New Orleans, LA, for Trinity Marine Group, Inc., Carol A. De Deo, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Thomas O. Shepherd, Jr., Clerk, Benefits Review Board, Joshua T. Gillelan, II (argued), Office of the Solicitor of Labor, Washington, DC, Michael O. Brewer, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, New Orleans, LA, for Director, Office of Worker's Compensation Programs.