James C. Winston v. Prudential Lines, Inc.

Plaintiff commenced this action against the defendant shipowner seeking to re cover damages for personal injuries he claimed were caused when he was employed as an unlicensed Junior Engineer on defendant’s vessel. This alleged injury was a permanent loss of taste and smell. The plaintiff’s claim was that an exposure to hydrochloric acid fumes under circumstances demonstrating the shipowner’s negligence was the cause of the injury. 1 The only person competent to testify for plaintiff with reasonable medical certainty that the injury resulted from the exposure was the plaintiff’s medical…