ARCO Platform fire taken from the escape capsule (lifeboat).
The aftermath of the fire and explosion of the ARCO Platform/Cryogenic Plant.
The firm of Lambert & Nelson, PLC has, since the late 1970's, successfully resolved literally hundreds, possibly thousands, of maritime claims involving offshore drilling activities in the Gulf of Mexico and worldwide. These include commercial and sport diving injury and death claims, claims on behalf of Blue Water Seamen who suffered injuries and/or death on the high seas, as well as claims involving personal injuries and deaths resulting from offshore drilling operations, including jack‑up rigs, semi‑submersibles, drilling platforms, crew lift boats, living quarters, cryogenic platforms, lay barges, and other special purpose vessels and operating platforms. Several notable claims include an ARCO cryogenic platform explosion in the early 90's which involved a SONAT sub‑sea pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The firm of Lambert & Nelson, PLC acted as lead counsel regarding the liability and causation issues in that multiple party claim. The firm was instrumental in resolving that claim on behalf of injured workers, as well as the survivors of deceased victims of that offshore tragedy. That claim was resolved for multi‑million dollars in damage awards within approximately one year of the date of the incident. It is a priority of the firm to seek full justice for its clients with particular emphasis on expeditious resolution of claims. We firmly believe in the principal that justice delayed is justice denied.
ARCO Platform fire taken from the escape capsule (lifeboat).
The aftermath of the fire and explosion of the ARCO Platform/Cryogenic Plant.
The firm has represented numerous commercial divers and/or their survivors in decompression injuries, and other mechanics of injury and death resulting from underwater activities throughout the world.
A diver later represented by Lambert & Nelson, PLC engaged in pipeline construction work.
Lambert & Nelson, PLC also acted as lead counsel in the Penrod 62 Jack-Up Rig collapse disaster which occurred during a hurricane in the mid 80's. In that case the firm acted again as lead counsel in the analysis of circumstances which led to the collapse of the MODU (mobile offshore drilling unit). Additionally, in the maritime field, Lambert & Nelson, PLC has acted as lead counsel regarding liability and other issues for the M/V Mandan disaster on the Mississippi River which involved a collision between an ocean going vessel and a living quarters vessel occupied by crews working with the Corp of Engineers. That complex multi-party litigation was successfully resolved for multi-million dollars in the 1990's. The firm also represented multiple parties and acted as lead counsel on issues of liability and causation in the case against Union Oil in California, and Unocal/Thailand which disaster took place in the Gulf of Thailand. Members of the firm traveled to Thailand on numerous occasions to develop evidence on behalf of U.S. victims of that drill ship capsize which involved the deaths of over a hundred individuals. Again Lambert & Nelson, PLC acted as lead counsel on liability and causation issues which involved complex side-scan sonar analysis of anchor and debris patterns, meteorological data, vessel stability calibrations, and complex time line evidence for a successful resolution of those claims on behalf the surviving families of that disaster.
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More recently, the firm of Lambert & Nelson, PLC was appointed by then Chief Judge Morey Sear of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to act as liaison counsel for the mass tort claim resulting from the allision of the M/V Brightfield with the Riverwalk Mall and Dock along the Mississippi Riverbank in New Orleans, Louisiana. The firm of Lambert & Nelson, PLC continues to be involved in maritime matters in many active ongoing cases.
Hugh P. Lambert, Esquire and others during an offshore inspection
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