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Vindication Of Employers' Jones Act Rights At 5th Circ.

By Matthew Guy (April 3, 2018, 11:20 AM EDT) -- In Denetra Thomas v. Hercules Offshore Services, the Fifth Circuit held that a mobile offshore drilling unit, or MODU, was subject to United States Coast Guard regulations not those of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, that a Jones Act seaman had presented no evidence of negligence or unseaworthiness when she tripped over a doorway threshold on a rig, and that willful concealment of prior injuries when she applied for employment meant that her employer was relieved of its maintenance and cure obligations....

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