Marine Insurance Legal
Covering the latest law firm activity in the marine insurance sector.
- MSC spent “tens of millions” of dollars after MSC Gayane drugs bust April 21, 2021Switzerland-based Shipping company MSC told a court prior to the sentencing of several crew members on a charge of drugs smuggling on the MSC Gayane in 2019 that it had since spent "tens of ....
- Captain fined for unauthorized discharge in Rouen Port April 20, 2021The captain of cargo ship Victoria Harbour (IMO 9589229) was fined a total of €12,000 by a Rouen court on April 2nd, 2021, for having discharged 5,000 tonnes of ballast water into the Seine in ....
- MSC Gayane crewman gets 70 months in prison for smuggling cocaine April 16, 2021A crew member of containership MSC Gayane (IMO 9770763) has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for attempting to smuggle about 20 tons of cocaine into the ....
- Lawsuit claims companies overruled captain who wanted to disconnect from well April 16, 2021A survivor of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2019 who is a former senior engineer on board a Transocean drillship in the US Gulf of Mexico, has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the .....
- Egypt will detain Ever Given until damage claim is resolved, says Rabie April 13, 2021Ultra-large container vessel Ever Given (IMO 9811000) will be detained in the Great Bitter Lake, which links the northern and southern channels of the Suez Canal, until Egypt's damages ....
- Maritime lien for bunkers April 13, 2021In UK Club's Quarterly Case Review (Addax Energy SA v MV Yasa H Mullah, No. 18-2438 (4th Circuit, January 22nd, 2021)) Addax Energy SA filed an in rem action in the US District Court Eastern .....
- Florida sues Biden administration in bid to restart cruise industry April 12, 2021The state of Florida is suing the US federal administration in federal court, seeking to block the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to prevent the US cruise industry from ....
- When is a person employed as a seafarer not really a seafarer? April 12, 2021In UK Club's Quarterly Case Report (QCR) Spring 2021, the case of Adams v All Coast covered the occasionally spiky issue of when a seaman might not be a seaman ....
- Bouchard Transportation pays $375,000 in restitution to whistleblower April 10, 2021Bouchard Transportation Co Inc. and three former and current management officials have paid $375,000 in restitution to a seaman whose brother was one of two seamen killed in the October 20th ....
- SCA hopes talks with Ever Given owners will conclude without legal action April 9, 2021The Suez Canal Authority has said that it and Egypt were negotiating with Shoei Kisen, the owners of ULCV Ever Given (IMO 9811000), and hoped that a financial settlement with the company ....