Sea Calm Shipping Co., S.A. v. Cooks

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict in favor of Mattie Mae Cooks, individually and as the personal representative of the estate of Theodore Cooks, Sr., and against Sea Calm Shipping Co., S.A. ("Sea Calm"), Sea Traders, S.A., and Hansa Heavy Lift Shipping GmbH ("Hansa")1 for $500,000 in an admiralty workmen's compensation action brought under33 U.S.C. § 905 (1986). The issues concern the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of expert testimony, and the instructions to the jury.

This case arose from an accident that occurred at the Port of Mobile aboard the M/V…