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25 Jun 2013, 2:28 pm by Maritime Law Staff
A maritime employer owes a seaman a higher negligence duty than in the usual employer-employee relationship, and the employer if its breach of that duty contributed to the seaman’s injury. [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 4:00 am by Berniard Law Firm
Seaman, Frank Glaze, recently found this to be true when a Louisiana Court dismissed his Jones Act personal injury case due to a lack of evidence. [read post]
23 May 2023, 7:29 am by Georges Legrand
We believe this decision will provide favorable precedent when an employer is defending claims by shipyard workers who are claiming seaman status. [read post]
3 May 2012, 6:00 am by Trevor Cutaiar
(3) The legal advice available and given—did the seaman have full knowledge of his legal rights? [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 8:06 am
When is a crane operator hired by a GC to run a crane mounted on a derrick barge for a project to rehabilitate a cruise line terminal actually a "seaman" protected by the federal Jones Act? [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 6:30 am by NELB Staff
Robinson (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) and Jeffrey Seaman (University of Pennsylvania) have published "“Mass Incarceration” Myths and Facts: Aiming Reform at the Real Problems" on SSRN. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 2:39 pm by Broussard & David
MARTINVILLE, LA – November 11, 2019 A Jones Act seaman was injured on January 29, 2016, when his coworker was piloting an Oceaneering survey vessel at high speeds while on his phone and slammed into a piling in the Empire Canal (Plaquemines Parish). [read post]
23 May 2023, 7:29 am by Georges Legrand
We believe this decision will provide favorable precedence when an employer is defending claims by shipyard workers who are claiming seaman status. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 7:00 am by Ogletree Abbott
If you are an injured seaman, you need an experienced attorney on your side. [read post]
The seaman’s counsel argued for a very broad interpretation of Vaughn on appeal arguing that any time there was a conflict of opinion between a seaman’s doctor and another doctor, the seaman’s doctor should be deferred to and the employer’s doctor disregarded. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 11:03 am
NY Times: Barbara Seaman, 72, Dies; Cited Risks of the Pill, by Margarlit Fox: Barbara Seaman, a writer and patients' rights advocate who was one of the first people to bring the issue of women's reproductive health to wide public... [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 10:36 am by Dwayne Clark
9/27/2010 1:36 PM By Michelle Massey, East Texas Bureau A Florida seaman has filed a lawsuit against barge company claiming he was permanently injured. [read post]
10 May 2013, 4:03 pm by Kraft Palmer Davies, PLLC
  The court ruled that where a seaman’s maintenance and cure have been cut off by the vessel owner, the seaman is entitled to have these benefits reinstated pending trial unless the vessel owner can provide unequivocal evidence that the seaman has reached maximum cure. [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 9:12 am
NCL, recognizing that arbitration agreements and seaman employment agreements are enforceable notwithstanding a choice of law provision which requires the application of foreign law to the seaman's claims. [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 7:56 am by Broussard & David
Landry Parish trial court found Ernest Guidry to be a seaman under the Jones Act and awarded general and special damages of $3,885,911.69. [read post]