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Baker Donelson

Keeled Hulls Split At Sea – The Fraught Waters Of General Maritime Law Punitive Damages, Split Among The Circuits

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Steady, helmsman! Steady. This is the sort of weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at sea. Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Chap. XL - Since the Supreme Court’s (Justice Thomas’s) landmark decision in...more

Gray Reed

5th Circuit Blocks Punitive Damages in Maritime Case

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In McBride v. Estis Well Service, LLC, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that punitive damages are not available to seamen under the Jones Act or under general maritime law. In those cases, recovery is...more

Adams and Reese LLP

Maritime Bulletin: Fifth Circuit Rules on McBride

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The Fifth Circuit issued its en banc decision in Estis v. McBride Well Service, LLC, No. 12-30714 (5th Cir. September 25, 2014) and ruled that a Jones Act seaman’s recovery is limited to pecuniary losses where liability is...more

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