vessel owner liability News

The Supreme Court has ruled that an injured merchant seaman can’t seek punitive damages based on the common-law maritime claim of unseaworthiness. The ruling settled a difference of opinion in the courts over whether punitive damages are available for unseaworthiness …

A federal judge has set a deadline for damage claims filed by relatives of crewmembers who were lost aboard a cargo ship that sank last month in Hurricane Joaquin. U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Schlesinger set Dec. 21 as the …