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Cozen O'Connor

Holiday Gift – Federal Maritime Recovery Law Updated After 170+ years

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Subrogation professionals are often vexed by the Limitation of Liability Act. In addition to inverting the usual plaintiff/defendant positions in litigation, and carrying a shortened deadline to file claims, this federal law,...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Maritime Operators: Check Your Cell Phone Policy

Q: What do a pleasure-boat operator blindly joyriding through the darkness with no running lights after four hours of barhopping and a commercial water-taxi owner/operator without a robust written cell phone use policy have...more

Baker Donelson

Know Your Limitations – Recent Jurisprudence Under The Limitation Of Liability Act

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Despite perennial complaints from lower and appellate courts that the Limitation of Liability Act (“LLA,” 46 U.S.C. §§30501 et seq.) is “now hopelessly anachronistic” (Cont’l Oil Co. v. Bonanza Corp., 706 F.2d 1365, 1376 (5th...more

King & Spalding

The Limitation of Liability Act of 1851: Recent Court Decisions Highlight Significant Issue for Offshore Energy Industry

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In 1912, a vessel owner by the name of White Star Lines invoked a little understood U.S. maritime law to limit its liability arising out of a maritime disaster. In 2010, a vessel owner by the name of Transocean invoked the...more

Blank Rome LLP

Mainbrace: September 2016 (No. 4)

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It’s hard to believe another summer has come and gone. The kids are back in school, the commuter trains are a bit more crowded, and everyone is back from their holidays, hopefully refreshed and ready to get back down to...more

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Mainbrace: September 2016 (No. 4)

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It’s hard to believe another summer has come and gone. The kids are back in school, the commuter trains are a bit more crowded, and everyone is back from their holidays, hopefully refreshed and ready to get back down to...more

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