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- Deckboss
- I'm a journalist covering Alaska's commercial fishing industry. My real name is Wesley Loy. Reach me at wloy61@gmail.com.
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- Another perspective on the 32-foot limit
- Bigger boats at Bristol Bay?
- 'Cheesecake combat'
- UFA offers limited OK for ASMI hookup with MSC
- NMFS wins halibut charter case
- So long, Seattle
- Jury says Icicle owes hurt crewman $1.5 million
- Expo time!
- Man dies after fall overboard near Wrangell
- What? Alaska salmon not MSC-certified?
- $370 million worth of salmon!
- Pollock holds steady
- Sleeping well in Seattle
- That's a wrap for halibut
- Big Togiak herring quota announced
- Bristol Bay forecast: 30.5 million sockeye
- Sold!
- Are you too old for this job?
- The latest on Adak Fisheries
- Search ends without recovery of missing crewman
- Lawyers haggle over fate of Adak Fisheries
- Please be on the lookout
- Blotter
- Commission: Most of N. Pacific awash in salmon
- Reaction from Japan
- Trident reveals Adak interest
- Exxon payments might come by year's end
- Crab boat hobbled but OK in Bering
- Here comes the Exxon money
- Major ruling looks near in Exxon Valdez case
- More on the case of Coast Guard Capt. Hamilton
- Crewman with eye injury airlifted off longliner
- EPA proposes $177,550 fine for Haines processor
- Case against Capt. Hamilton disclosed
- 'Fishery porn'
- Salmon, sake and secrecy in Japan
- Behnken honored
- Capsized boat sinks during salvage effort
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6 comments:
Welcome to Seattle ;)
As usual, sorry bout the weather..... heheheheh....
It seems to me that by the same logic that cut the punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez case, this punitive damages award should be severely limited as well. We'll see if maritime law really does mandate a 1:1 cap, or if that only applies when a multi-national corporate giant like Exxon is on the hook!
Attention all vessel captains, you must baby sit your crew and prevent them from making stupid decisions. Was he ordered to lift a 122 lb. sheet of steel? If so then maybe damages are justified. If it was a bonehead move on his part then it gives this boat owner the chills.
of the 1.5 million, what cut do the attorneys get?
I should have sued the piss out of them, when I had the chance....Now,I have a deformed body, because of lack of communication on their part....I was sweet talked by a captain to let it go...statute of limitations is 3 years...but that's long gone....the injury was not self inflicted, like the fore-mentioned and accused...yeah great company, right!....everybody only lookin' out for them selves....see no evil do no evil....lol....
This verdict seems to just enforce that no personal responsibility should exist. Why on Earth was this guy trying to lift a 122 lb piece of metal? If he had injured himself while bench-pressing the same weight, would the gym have been liable? All this does is encourage even higher insurance for vessel owners - to guard them against stupidity!
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