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Nevor V. Moneypenny Holdings, Llc: Availability Of Prejudgment Interest For Mixed Maritime Law And Jones Act Claims, Adam S. Bohanan Jan 2019

Nevor V. Moneypenny Holdings, Llc: Availability Of Prejudgment Interest For Mixed Maritime Law And Jones Act Claims, Adam S. Bohanan

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

In maritime personal injury cases, courts have traditionally seen prejudgment interest as part of the compensation due to a prevailing plaintiff. The goal of ensuring the fullest compensation possible has long been recognized as a basic principle of admiralty law. However, federal appellate courts are split over whether to award prejudgment interest on a mixed claim under general maritime law and the Jones Act. This Note explores this issue in Nevor v. Moneypenny Holdings, LLC, which was the first time the question had been raised in the First Circuit. The Fifth and Sixth Circuits have held that because prejudgment interest …


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Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Before And After United States V. Reliable Transfer: An Analysis Of Maritime Collision Law, Irene Johnson Barnes Oct 1978

Before And After United States V. Reliable Transfer: An Analysis Of Maritime Collision Law, Irene Johnson Barnes

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Apportioning Maritime Collision Damages: Applying The Rule Of Reliable Transfer Sep 1977

Apportioning Maritime Collision Damages: Applying The Rule Of Reliable Transfer

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Admiralty--Torts--Recovery Permitted For Mental Suffering Of Surviving Spouse In Death Action Under General Maritime Law--In Re Sincere Navigation Corp., Michigan Law Review Mar 1972

Admiralty--Torts--Recovery Permitted For Mental Suffering Of Surviving Spouse In Death Action Under General Maritime Law--In Re Sincere Navigation Corp., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A recent federal district court decision, In re Sincere Navigation Corp. allowed recovery for the emotional distress of the spouse and the children of a seaman killed in a collision on the Mississippi River ·within the territorial waters of Louisiana. The action for ·wrongful death was brought under general maritime law through a new federal remedy first announced in Moragne v. States Marine Lines, lnc. Moragne did not specifically enumerate the elements of damage for which recovery would be allowed; instead it left the question open for consideration in later decisions. Whether any recovery was permitted under general maritime law …


Recent Developments, Stephen W. Ramp, Christopher L. Dutton Jan 1972

Recent Developments, Stephen W. Ramp, Christopher L. Dutton

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Admiralty--The Broadening Scope of Damages Awardable for Wrongful Death in Admiralty

Stephen W. Ramp

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Aliens--State Restrictions on Alien Lawyers

Christopher L. Dutton


Tugs, Stevedores, And The Warranty Of Workmanlike Performance, David G. Davies Jan 1969

Tugs, Stevedores, And The Warranty Of Workmanlike Performance, David G. Davies

Indiana Law Journal

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Recent Developments, Various Editors Jan 1968

Recent Developments, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Recent Developments, Various Editors Jan 1967

Recent Developments, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Longshoreman-Shipowner-Stevedore: The Circle Of Liability, Harney B. Stover, Jr. Jan 1963

Longshoreman-Shipowner-Stevedore: The Circle Of Liability, Harney B. Stover, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

It is universally recognized that in the past two decades the United States Supreme Court has substantially revised the law under which seamen, longshoremen and harbor workers (or their survivors) may recover damages for personal injury and death. One of the more recent and most authoritative texts in the field of admiralty and maritime law devotes an entire chapter, 147 pages in length, to the subject of the rights of seamen and maritime workers (or their survivors) of recovery for injury and death. The introduction to that chapter likens the Court's rewriting of the law in this field to a …