With offshore oil and gas industry booming, and technology increasing along with the industry, many companies are turning to "spar" platforms to help extract oil from offshore sites.
If you are injured on a spar, it used to be that you could not bring a Jones Act case because a spar wasn't considered a Jones Act "vessel."
With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Stewart v. Dutra, and the Fifth Circuit's decision in Holmes v. Atlantic Sounding after that, it seems likely that spars are Jones Act "vessels" and thus injured spar workers may have a Jones Act claim.
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