Transocean Raises Questions About Plaintiffs’ Healthcare Billing Schemes in Hurricane Zeta Litigation

Next week, two of nearly two-dozen workers who claim they received physical and psychological injuries when their employers forced them to stay aboard the Deepwater Asgard drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico and ordered them to keep the rig operating even though it was in the direct path of Hurricane Zeta in October 2020 get to tell their harrowing stories to a Houston jury.

Twenty-three crew members of Asgard, which is about the size of NRG Stadium, filed lawsuits claiming that the decision by Transocean Offshore Drilling, Triton Voyager Asset Leasing and BOE Exploration put them in extreme danger for hours during the Category Three hurricane and caused them injuries that “left them physically and mentally unable to work offshore or lead a normal life.”