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Uncertainty Zone

11/12/2024

Part Three: Interesting Cases Decided During Calendar Year 2023

This Longshore Insider blog reviews interesting cases decided during calendar year 2023 relevant to the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (Longshore Act) (33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.). The...

8/29/2022

The Uncertainty Zone: Course Correction on Seaman Status

Employers ensure their liability for the illness, injury, or death of employees that occur in the course and scope of employment and arise out of the employment. Land-based maritime workers are...

4/6/2020

Uncertainty Zone Strikes Again: When Courts Disagree on Seaman Status

There is an uncertain boundary where the employment status, injury and illness remedies, and insurance coverage requirements overlap between the Jones Act (negligence) and General Maritime Law (GML)...

8/6/2018

Jones Act or Longshore Act… or Both?

On several prior occasions we have discussed the problematic coverage issues that arise where the Jones Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (the Longshore Act) overlap in the...