Richard E. Madore v. Ingram Tank Ships, Inc. v. Samson Ocean Systems, Inc.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The district court’s computation of the damages due a disabled seaman is attacked on the basis that the court erred in the method it used to discount the award to present value, in failing to make allowance for income and social security taxes that would not be paid if the seaman did not work, and in allowing damages for loss of society to a minor son. We find that the issue concerning the award to the minor son was timely raised and, reaching the merits, that federal law permits no such award. We also find merit to the other attacks on computation of damages and…