Transocean Employee Hurt in BP Blast Asks for Separate Trial
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Buddy Trahan, a Transocean Ltd. rig supervisor who barely survived the BP Plc Deepwater Horizon rig disaster, asked a federal judge to free his stalled personal-injury lawsuit from the oil-spill litigation set for trial in New Orleans on Feb. 27.
“Like a beleaguered passenger who fruitlessly waits for a streetcar that will not come, Buddy Trahan has waited and waited and waited some more” for his case to be returned to state court or set for trial in the New Orleans federal court, Lance Lubel, Trahan’s lawyer, said today in court papers. “In sheer exhaustion from his torturous ordeal, he respectfully -- but stridently -- requests that the court reopen the only avenue of escape and grant him the ride he needs and deserves.”