Patton-Tully Transportation Co. v. Ratliff

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to review district court determinations that an employee who died in the swamping of a 16-foot skiff was a Jones Act seaman, and that his employer was not entitled to a limitation of liability under 46 U.S.C. § 183(a) because it had privity or knowledge of the condition that caused the accident. We are also asked to review the appropriateness and amount of several components of the damage award. We affirm as not clearly erroneous the district court’s findings on the issues of seaman status and limitation of liability, and uphold the damage…