It's great to be back in the classroom, this time teaching marine insurance. Everything from the Lord Mansfield's landmark eighteenth century opinions to the latest thorny U.S. marine insurance cases.
A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit just took aim at an old U.S. Supreme Court precedent in a recent decision involving the loss of a pleasure vessel during a recent
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently affirmed the rule that a longshoreman cannot sue a vessel owner for injuries sustained as a result of an "open and obvious" condition. In Tr
One theme in the law is the way older commercial concepts often take on an enlarged role in civil litigation. One example is the shipowner's duty to provide a seaworthy vessel to someone who signs on