Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Ware
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 13, 2013No. G045886, G046287PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
O’LEARY, P. J.
Chad Ware appeals from the judgment entered against him in this maritime wrongful death action. Ware owned a vessel that was being used for a live onboard marine education program for students. The decedent, an adult chaperone on the trip, drowned while “free-diving” during a daytime excursion off of the ship conducted by the operators of the educational program. The jury returned a special verdict finding the company that operated the marine education program was a negligent cause of decedent’s death (apportioning 20 percent of the fault to it), and finding the decedent…
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