Admiralty Lawyer

The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the greatest environmental disasters in history, resulted in 240,000 barrels of oil being leaked into Prince William Sound, a $5 billion punitive damage judgment against Exxon, and 19 years of appeals by the oil giant. Now, the nearly two-decade long case is drawing toward a close, with […]

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Krzysztof Zarotynski, 56, a 21-year veteran dock worker, was killed Monday as the result of an accident at the Beckett Street Terminal. Zarotynski, a cargo crane operator, was preparing a crane to unload a docked ship when the accident occurred. The South Jersey Port Corporation (SJPC) reported that he was the first and only employee […]

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A sailor working on a barge sailing the Illinois River has filed an injury lawsuit against Osage Marine Services, alleging that it violated its Jones Act obligations by failing to provide a safe workplace. Tracey Fansheir, who hurt his back while working as a deckhand on the M/V Miss Mary Ann in January of this […]

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The body of Kevin Batten, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, was pulled out of the James River late last week after he fell from the USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class Navy aircraft carrier Wednesday morning. Batten, who was employed by Northrop Grumman Corp. as a sheet-metal-worker, had only recently been accepted into the shipyard’s Apprentice School.
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Kenneth Tonn, 60, was sentenced last Friday to 6-20 years in prison for the deaths of David and Kathleen Gilfillan last summer. Tonn, whose blood alcohol content (BAC) was nearly twice the legal limit, lost control of his boat, which struck the Gilfillans, who were sitting on the back of a beached boat. Kathleen died […]

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