News tagged with 'Admiralty Personal Injury Law'

A Massachusetts judge recently ordered the owners of a tugboat to pay $1.1 million for damages their vessel caused to a tugboat-barge in the Cape Cod Canal. In August 1999, the tugboat Mary Turecamo , owned by Moran Towing Corp., and the barge Florida , owned by Petroleum Transport Corporation, were tied together t

Oklahoma's Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, announced this week that the state has filed suit against the owner and driver of a tugboat that rammed into an interstate highway last month, killing 14 people. On May 26, Capt. William Joe Dedmon, an employee of Magnolia Marine Transport Co., was pushing two barges up the

The Ingram Barge Company has settled a lawsuit with a former employee who suffered serious head injuries while working on a boat on the Ohio River. Christopher Eldridge, 24, was severely injured in 1999 when a cable aboard the barge snapped and struck him in the head. The $10 million settlement, reached Tuesday, is b