Maritime Lawyer

The U.S. Coast Guard was recently assisted in the rescue of two sailors by a California Maritime Academy ship. The rescue took place off the coast of Monterey. According to the Coast Guard, they received a distress call around 1pm from a 17 foot long boat, known as the Blue Chip, carrying two passengers.
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The Supreme Court has drastically reduced the sentence Exxon Mobil Corporation was forced to pay after the 1989 Valdez oil spill. They originally were supposed to pay harmed Alaskans $5 billion but now are only be required to pay $500 million.
Over 11 million gallons of oil spilled into the ocean from the accident. The captain […]

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A group of Spanish workers who were contracted to work on U.S. Navy warships in Spain between the years 1950 and 1998 have been permitted to sue the company in New Jersey for asbestos-related injuries.
The ruling was made by a New Jersey appellate court. It overturned a previous lower court’s ruling that said they couldn’t sue […]

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The pilot of the container ship that hit one of the supports for San Fransisco’s Bay Bridge has requested that some of the federal charges against him be dismissed.
In November, the Cosco Busan struck the Bay Bridge which ripped a 90 foot hole in the side of the ship. While tearing the hull of the […]

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A 49-year old stevedore of the Dumaguete port in the Phillipines died after fighting for his life for hours in Intensive Care at a nearby hospital.
The stevedore was apparently injured when a co-worker ran him over with a fork lift.  The victim’s supervisor says he told the victim to release the cargo net from the […]

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