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Aviation Deaths on the High Seas: Continuing Questions and Recent Developments
This article focuses on one important maritime statute: the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA), including its all-important Commercial Aviation Exception. It also analyzes two unresolved procedural issues in DOHSA cases: whether and when they are removable to federal court and whether a DOHSA plaintiff has a right to a jury trial.
Maritime Coverage Case About To Make Waves at Supreme Court
How should a federal court decide whether to enforce a choice-of-law provision? That's the question at the heart of 'Great Lakes Ins. v. Raiders Retreat Realty', a maritime coverage dispute that will be argued before the Supreme Court. However the court rules, the decision could have wide-ranging implications for insurance disputes—even those on land.
A Miami Lawyer Collapsed in Court, Then Learned She Had a Rare Illness That Left Her Paralyzed
Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare neurological disorder. The body's immune system mistakenly attacks its nervous system, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis.
Carnival's First Compliance Officer Rushing to Fix Environmental Reputation
Six months on the job, Carnival's first chief ethics and compliance officer is fixing the cruise operator's compliance system that was so broken a Miami federal judge threatened to jail its top executives.
Boat Owners Seek to Head Off Lawsuits After 34 Die in Fire
Truth Aquatics, which owned the Conception, filed an action under a pre-Civil War provision of maritime law that allows it to limit its liability, a time-tested legal maneuver that has been successfully employed by owners of the Titanic and countless other crafts.
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Texting Liability Hits the High Seas and So Far, It's a Rough Voyage
In his Admiralty column, James E. Mercante writes: Recent marine casualties demonstrate that operators of watercraft can be lured into inattention as readily as their landlubbing counterparts.
How Fort Lauderdale Attorneys Won a $71 Million Verdict Despite Their Client's Low Medical Bills
The biggest obstacle was proving that a client with $3,550 in medical bills had suffered permanent, devastating injury worthy of a multimillion-dollar award.
Fort Lauderdale Lawyers Win Nearly $71 Million Verdict for Yacht Rape Victim
A drunken crew member raped a steward on a yacht docked for maintenance work in Fort Lauderdale.
Three Firms Pump Fees From Bankrupt Bahamian Oil Shipper
Ultrapetrol Bahamas Ltd., a company that floats energy boats throughout South America, filed for bankruptcy in New York on Feb. 6. Zirinsky Law Partners, a firm formed last year by a former top bankruptcy partner at three Am Law 100 firms, is advising Ultrapetrol along with Hughes Hubbard & Reed and Seward & Kissel.
Norwegian Cruise Line Lawyers Dismantle $2.8M Personal Injury Claim
The cruise ship operator's lawyers secured a near-complete defense verdict after a passenger sued for $2.8 million, claiming she suffered brain trauma from a Murphy bed that opened unexpectedly.TRENDING STORIES
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