LAW 5424 - Maritime Personal Injury and Tort Law

Credit(s): 2
Principles of law applicable to maritime personal injury litigation; extent of admiralty jurisdiction with respect to personal injury cases; rules of law applicable to industrial accidents, including scope of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Worker’s Compensation Act as amended, and its relationship to state workmen’s compensation laws; general principles of tort applied in maritime personal injury litigation; remedies available to particular classes of persons, such as seamen, constructive seamen, longshoremen and harbor workers, and passengers; recent Supreme Court jurisprudence in connection with wrongful death actions; nature and extent of damages recoverable in various kinds of actions; principles of law applicable to injuries occurring on or near fixed off-shore platforms; and scope and application of Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Students cannot take both this course and LAW 5417 Admiralty.