A company lost its bid to toss a claim connected to the death of an archeologist who drowned in the Hudson River while surveying a PCB-dredging site for artifacts.
URS Corporation, a subcontractor on GE’s long-standing PCB project in the Hudson, had contended the Jones Act protects workers’ compensation rights of injured “seamen,” and that employee Jeffrey Harbison did not qualify as one when he died after the boat he was piloting lost power and capsized in November 2009.
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