United States Fifth Circuit

In an action for contractual indemnification arising out of a helicopter crash, judgment for Defendants is affirmed, where Plaintiff was not entitled to indemnification under its agreement with Defendants because Plaintiff itself had agreed to indemnify Defendants for the type of loss at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/09/2009
• Published 03/09/2009

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, STEWART and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph E. Kraft, Frederick Douglas Gatz, Jr., Bryan Edward Lege, Kraft, Gatz & Devitt, Lafayette, LA, Robert Alan York (argued), GodwinRonquillo, P.C., Dallas, TX, Jack Charles Benjamin, Jr., Charles R. Lane, Kraft, Gatz, Lane & Benjamin, Katharine Rachael Colletta, Lemle & Kelleher, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Misty Annette Hataway-Cone, Godwin Pappas Ronquillo, Houston, TX, for Halliburton Energy Services.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth H. Laborde (argued), Gieger, Laborde & Laperouse, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees.