This is a long piece I wrote for a legal journal, not for the general audience, but it has a lot of solid information all the same. The Jones Act Plaintiff The remedies available to an injured seaman are three: so-called Jones Act negligence, the common law tort of...
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When the Insurance Company Owns Your Case
Buried in nearly every insurance policy is language similar to this: “The insurer, on making any payment or assuming liability therefor is subrogated to all rights of recovery of the insured against any person, and may bring action in the name of the insured to...
Back to the Beach
In the majority of states a landowner’s property line ends at the mean high water mark. In these states the intertidal zone is owned by the state, which holds the land in trust for its citizens. But in Massachusetts and Maine, by virtue of an ancient colonial...