5th Circuit Reverses, Remands Coverage Suit Arising From Worker’s Salt Mine Death

(March 20, 2024, 9:22 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a lower federal court legally erred in finding that the Louisiana Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Act contains a universal “well” requirement, reversing a coverage dispute arising from a worker’s death at a salt mine and remanding for the lower court to determine, in the first instance, whether fire-suppression and electrical-work contracts between the salt mine owner and its contractors “pertain[] to . . . drilling for minerals.”...