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March 2019 Longshore Update
March 2019Notes From Your Updater: On February 6, 2019, a federal complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana concerning a LHWCA §8(I) settlement submitted and approved by an ALJ back in...
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April 2019 Longshore Update
April 2019Notes From Your Updater:An attempted legislative change, to do away with concurrent jurisdiction in South Carolina, has failed yet again. However, the silver lining to that cloud, which...
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May 2019 Longshore Update
May 2019Notes From Your Updater:TO MY LONG SUFFERING READERS, This Update will be my last. I am retiring and will no longer have Lexis available to me, and it would be much too costly to continue to...
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June 2019 Longshore Update
June 2019 Longshore/Maritime UpdateNotes From Your Updater: The previous issue of this Update was the last one written by Tom Langan to his many loyal and long-suffering readers. He is enjoying his...
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June 24, 2019 - Update on punitive damages in seamen's cases
Update on punitive damages in seamen’s casesJune 24, 2019The Supreme Court handed down its decision today in The Dutra Group v. Batterton, No. 18-266 (June 24, 2019). The case presented an issue that...
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July 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update
July 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 242 )Notes from your Updater:On May 31, 2019, the Texas Supreme Court declined to rehear its decision in Anaadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Houston Casualty Co....
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August 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update
August 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 243)Notes from your Updater: President Trump announced that he will nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next Secretary...
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September 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update
September 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 244)Notes from your Updater:On August 29, 2019, the National Office of the OWCP closed approximately 52,000 claims under the longshore program in...
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October 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update
October 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 245) Notes from your Updater: The Department of Labor has announced the National Average Weekly Wage to be applicable for the 12-month period beginning...
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November 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update
November 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 246)Notes from your Updater:Our longstanding readers will note that this month’s Update comes from a new provider and platform. Yahoo Groups will cease...
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December 2019 Longshore/Maritime Update
December 2019 Update (No. 247)Notes from your Updater:On November 4, 2019, a jury in federal court in Oregon found in favor of ICTSI Oregon, Inc. that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union...
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January 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
January 2020 Longshore Update (No. 248)Notes from your Updater:On December 16, 2019, the Fifth Circuit denied Centaur’s petition for rehearing en banc in Barrios v. Centaur, L.L.C, 942 F.3d 670 (5th...
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February 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
February 2020 Longshore Update (No. 249)Note from your Updater:The long dispute over the constitutionality/preemption of the Massachusetts Oil Spill Prevention Act (the litigation began in 2005, the...
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March 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
March 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 250)Notes from your Updater:The fact that this is our 25oth edition of the Update calls for thanks to all those who have made the Update possible, particularly...
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April 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
April 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 251)Notes from your Updater:On March 6, 2020, the Fourth Circuit issued its decision in Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. BP, P.L.C. (No. 19-1644). The...
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May 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
May 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 252)Notes from your Updater:Effective April 6, 2020, the administration of the Longshore Program of the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs was consolidated...
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June 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
June 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 253)Notes from your Updater:We have seen the Federal Officer Removal Statute in a number of contexts, including removal of asbestos-exposure cases by shipyards...
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July 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
July 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 254)Notes from your Updater:On June 1, 2020, Chief Administrative Law Judge Henley issued an order extending indefinitely the moratorium on in-person hearings...
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August 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
August 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 255)Notes from your Updater:Opinions from the suit brought on behalf of the special-needs children and their families arising from the winter storm that...
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September 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update
September 2020 Longshore/Maritime Update (No. 256)Notes from your Updater:After Judge Ozerden entered judgment in the long-running dispute between Ingalls Shipbuilding and the Venezuelan Ministry of...
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