Hugo Black

“ Hawn, 346 U.S. 406, 74 S.Ct. 202, 98 L.Ed. 143, we held that the system of compensation which Congress established in the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act [1] as the sole liability of a stevedoring company to its employees prevented a shipowner from shifting all or part of his liability to the injured longshoreman onto the stevedoring company, the longshoreman's employer. ”

“ There is no basis in past decisions of this or any other court for the holding that one who undertakes to do a job for another and is not negligent in any respect nevertheless has an insurer's absolute liability to indemnify for liability to injured workers which the party who hired the job done may incur. ”