Our legal system is an adversarial one when it comes to civil and criminal proceedings. It’s one side against the other… plaintiff vs. defendant. Even where the stage might appear to be free of conflict, such as the absent-minded inventor with a new light bulb…
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Imagine yourself on the bridge of a ship in the English Channel on a mid-December night. It’s cold. Visibility is poor due to fog. This could describe conditions faced by the crews of three cargo vessels one dark night about twenty years ago. The three…
When people think about filing a maritime lawsuit, they think primarily in terms of substantive law. That means they focus on “big picture” things. In a boating accident, these substantive law issues often revolve around theories of negligence. Was a vessel traveling at excessive speed?…
A recent accident on the cold waters of the Baltic Sea resulted in criminal charges being filed by authorities. In December 2021, two cargo vessels collided in the shipping lanes between Bornholm, a Danish Island, and Ystad, a town in Sweden. One of the vessels…
No one steps aboard a vessel planning to have an accident. Whether the setting is an outboard skiff fishing on Great South Bay or a tug hauling oil barges on the Hudson, the goal is to be safe and get home in one piece. It…
The operation of a vessel on the water might be seen as similar to the operation of a vehicle on a roadway. In both, you have a helm, controls, and instrumentation. However, with the vehicle, one is often confined in place by a seatbelt with…
There are many reality shows and videos out there that depict the dangers faced by people who earn their living on the water. These cover lots of territory – crab season on the Bering Sea, lobstering in New England, or shrimping in the Gulf of…
Cruise lines are in the news quite a bit lately, owing largely to the public’s concerns about shipboard safety in the age of COVID. As passengers cautiously contemplate returning to their favorite ships to test the waters of cruise vacations, the atmosphere is one of…
When it comes to maritime salvage, the basic concept is an ancient one. The notion of coming to the assistance of an imperiled vessel is something that dates back to the days of sail-driven merchant ships hauling grain and oils across the Mediterranean.Due to the…
When maritime injury lawsuits appear before federal judges, they usually involve some form of physical proof that someone was hurt. A deckhand on a tug suffers a bone fracture from a watertight door closing on his hand. A stewardess on a yacht tears a knee…