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Re:Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore br... by unyttigfjelltol on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:47AM (#39915730)
This isn't an insurance lawsuit. Interestingly, it's also not exclusively a ship owner petition. The petition also includes the ship manager.

Another poster linked to a USC section protecting the ship owner on the basis of them not knowing anything that caused the loss. So that is what it is.

Ok, but why would a ship manager also be able to benefit from such a limitation ? The USC section doesn't say anything about the manager, and unlike the owner, the manager was by definition an active participant in the casualty.

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Re:Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore br... by _heimdall on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @07:59AM (#39916306)
Presumably the ship manager, and everyone else onboard, should only be liable if they did something wrong. If the vessel lost power and they followed all standard procedures, acting responsibly and simply couldn't avoid the collision, they did their jobs and shouldn't be financially or legally liable.
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Re:Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore br... by shakahshakah on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @10:57AM (#39918316)
While I'm sure they'd love to "win" their petition outright, a major benefit of filing the partition is to force all future legal action through that single court system.
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