Gorman v. Prudential Lines, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM C. CONNER, District Judge.

This case is a paradigm of the explosion of tort litigation that has caused a crisis in the liability insurance business — a prototypical exemplar of the virtually universal effort to obtain compensation for every injury or loss regardless of actual fault.

Plaintiff Charles G. Gorman (“Gorman”), a Chief Engineer on the tanker SAROULA owned by defendant Prudential Lines, Inc. (“Prudential”), has sued under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688 et seq. and general maritime law, claiming that he suffered coronary artery disease as a consequence of…