Maritime Overseas Corp. v. Ellis

ENOCH, SPECTOR, ABBOTT and HANKINSON, Justices, join.

This case involves Richard Ellis’s Jones Act claims for injuries he sustained aboard a vessel owned by Maritime Overseas Corporation. The trial court rendered judgment on the jury’s verdict for Ellis for actual and exemplary damages and awarded prejudgment interest. The court of appeals affirmed the actual damages award, but reversed the awards of exemplary damages and prejudgment interest.

Maritime asserts that the court of appeals used an improper standard to review the factual sufficiency of Ellis’s damages evidence. Maritime also…