Legge Farrow Maritime Law Update

• Meeting Vessel Owners' Commercial Needs in the 21st Century:  Enforcing Internet Terms and Conditions in Maritime Contracts (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   
• Texas Supreme Court Limits Evidence of Medical Payments to What Medical Provider Was Actually Reimbursed For, Not What They Billed (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   
• Supreme Court Reaffirms "Featherweight" Standard of Causation in FELA and Jones Act Personal Injury and Death Claims (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• The Deepwater Horizon Survivors' Fairness Act:  Attempts to Amend Limitation of Liability and Death on High Seas Act Continues (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• Unforseen Consequences of Townsend: Seamen May Recover Punitive Damages on Unseaworthiness Claims in the Ninth Circuit (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• U.S. Supreme Court to Re-examine Causation Standard under FELA (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• District Courts Continue to Hold Floating Production Facilities to be Non-Vessels (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• The U.S. District for the Eastern District of Texas Holds Spar Platform Thunder Horse Is Not a Vessel and Denies Jones Act Seamen Status to Worker Injured Thereon (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• Arbitration Agreements and Jones Act Seamen (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• State Statutes Limiting Liability of State-Licensed Compulsory Ship Pilots (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• U.S. Coast Guard Revises Policy on Designating Parties-In-Interest in Marine Casualty Investigations (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   
• Grand Isle Shipyard v. Seacor (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   
• Significant Decision:  Atlantic Sounding v. Townsend.  Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Punitive Damages in Maintenance and Cure Cases (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   
• Supreme Court of Texas Holds the State's Multi-District Litigation Procedures Requiring Consolidation of all Silica -Related Cases Into a Single Multidistrict Litigation Court and the Threshold Showing of a Valid Diagnosis Not Pre-empted by the Jones Act (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   
• 5th Circuit Adopts Rule Prohibiting Assignment of Tort Claims from an Injured Party to a Tortfeasor (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• 5th Circuit Expands Application of McCorpen Defense in Johnson v. Cenac Towing, Inc. (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)