Mealey's (February 17, 2023, 9:03 AM EST) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana issued a $24,382,978.40 final judgment in favor of the wife and child of an off-shore worker who was fatally injured on the job after a jury found that the owner and operator of an off-shore oil platform and a company it hired to remove firewater pipes were negligent or at fault for causing the worker’s death....