The plaintiff was running his flat boat powered by a 40-hp surface drive on the Tangipahoa river. He decided to explore some shallow...

The seaman was hurt while feeding a mooring line over the side of the ROSS CANDIES. He felt pain in his abdomen around the site of a...

This case involves crew members getting drunk at a bar and then running a small skiff into the head of a large northbound tow while...

Congress passed the Limitation of Shipowners’ Liability Act in 1851 to encourage U.S. shipping. Most agree the societal aims of the...

A maritime worker who does not qualify as a Jones Act seaman is likely covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act...

Most land-based employees are entitled to workers’ compensation when they are injured at work. Seamen do not get workers’ compensation. ...

The seaman complained of injuries to his neck and lower back after he was involved in an incident on January 18, 2022, near Chalmette,...

This case shows how the plaintiff’s bar is using bifurcation in vessel limitation of liability actions to obtain a jury over the issue of...

The ship in this Mississippi River collision case argued it was a privileged vessel under the Inland Navigational Rules such that the...

The U.S. Coast Guard filed a Suspension & Revocation proceeding against a mariner for testing positive for marijuana after he used hemp...

Here is an update about a recent jury verdict out of New Orleans federal court where a Jones Act seaman obtained close to $3.4 million...

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a senior ship officer's license for hazing and inappropriately touching junior personnel while serving as...

At 3:30 in the morning, the DAVID G SERT and her eighteen barge tow of empties collided with dredge pipe being towed by the LA BELLE and...

The court granted Ingram's motion to dismiss the barge washer’s claim in this case because the barge washer was injured by a condition he...

The roustabout claims he was injured when he tripped and fell while walking on a skid beam on the Lena Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

While unloading cargo from the M/V CARIBOU to the Horn Mountain Spar in the Gulf of Mexico as deckhand, the plaintiff allegedly suffered...

This dispute arises out of an incident occurring in 2020 when the ship’s crane made contact with a component of a grain terminal’s...

-August 4, 2022- Dear Friends and Colleagues, As many of you know, my legal career has developed over the past several years at one of...