[image] Baltimore City accuses Dali owners of negligence in Key Bridge collapse Owners of the Dali were negligent in sailing an unseaworthy ship out of the Port of Baltimore, city officials say in claim. This makes it seem as if the lawsuit is based only on i…

Pacer…man oh man its been a while since I had to spend hours and hours on that site hunting down case law. A huge trove of incredible info and depth for sure but when you are 22, its a hungover Wednesday at 8am and your boss is making you hunt down partlow chart arbitration it gets old quick!

[image] tugsailor: they allege the two principal sources of liability: unseaworthiness and negligence. I’m not an expert in legal maters but apparently to file a civil lawsuit the standard is the claim must be reasonably plausible and have sufficient factual basis. A seaworthy ship presumabl…

The concept of Res Ipsa Loquitur is not an exact fit, but it’s close enough for our purposes. Although res ipsa loquitur is a land based negligence concept, one can think of unseaworthiness in a similar way: seaworthy ships do not generally lose power and steering and knock down bridges. There is…

Transitory Unseaworthiness: Looking up the seminal Trawler Racer case, I am reminded that unseaworthiness differs from negligence in that it is a form of strict liability or “absolute liability” in admiralty. I have only copied the heading and syllabus of the court which briefly described the outco…

Beat me to it. I was going to post about Mitchell v Trawler Racer. Both for the concept of transitory unseaworthiness, and to illustrate that “unseaworthiness” is a very broad concept and is not limited to what a lay person would think of when they hear that term

Various members of the forum have been speculating about whether Dali left the dock in an unseaworthy condition with electrical problems and the owners, managers or charterer knew it. While all of this is very relevant to proving negligence by the ships officers, owners, manager, and charterer, it r…

Besides for all that, you want to get your lawsuit in early and name everyone that even looked at the ship. The courts can sort it out later, but it is easier to drop parties from the case than add them. To add to the fun and delays, the insurance companies involved will then sue each other trying …

Sir. I have been following below link for more then 20 years already and during all these years downloadad many cases for reading as it is by no means one of the most fascinating literature to read as a reading hobby . Never in any of studied cases have I encountered the term " transitory un…

It does not matter what the cause of unseaworthiness is, how long it has been unseaworthy , or who did or didn’t know about it, or what precautions where taken, or not taken, to assure seaworthiness. If the vessel is found to be unseaworthy (which doesn’t take much), then it is “absolutely liable” …

Baltimore City accuses Dali owners of negligence in Key Bridge collapse

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Baltimore City accuses Dali owners of negligence in Key Bridge collapse

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