Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

DoCarmo v. F.V. Pilgram I Corporation - Federal Court of Appeals for First Circuit - Dec. 28, 1979 It is an established rule in U.S. maritime law that damages recovered in a wrongful death action are limited to pecuniary loss. The Death on the High..

Petition for certiorari, 79-73, filed July 16, 1979, the dual nature of fire defences in the United States is questioned and decided negatively. In the 1936 COGSA (46 U.S.C. 1308) the 1851 Fire Statute (46 U.S.C. 182) is specifically preserved - the..

A booking note contained a London arbitration clause. The bill of lading covering the shipment of cargo thereunder, provided for settlement of disputes in the Danish Courts. The charterers alleged that the shipment arrived late and claimed damages..

Allied Wood (Allied) had borrowed money from the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association in order to purchase timber. They sold the timber through Pharoahs, who acted as their agents, to buyers in London. Some of the timber went to..

A vessel under time charter docked at 04 00 hours and at 09 00 hours a surveyor had refused to pass a hold as suitable for loading cargo due to the presence of puddles to water. The charter-party provided inter..

A time charter called for delivery of a vessel with “about 20 metric tons of diesel oil and to be redelivered with the same quantities”. The vessel was delivered with 13.146 tonnes of diesel and redelivered with only 6.5 tonnes. The..

Plaintiff charterers applied for an injunction requesting that the defendant owners be ordered to return control of the vessel, Nestor , to the extent of the charter-party the plaintiffs and defendants had entered into; alternatively that the..