Legal Opinion
Hernandez v. M/V Rajaan
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 1988No. Nos. 85-2608, 87-2044PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge:
The district court held a vessel owner liable to a longshoreman injured while loading palletized bags of rice into the vessel’s cargo hold. We affirm that court’s judgment of liability and portions of the damages awarded. We also affirm the rejection of the vessel owner’s limitation of liability defense. We vacate, reverse or modify certain portions of the damages award we find to be erroneous.
On September 21, 1983, Alejandro Hernandez was partially paralyzed while working as a longshoreman aboard the M/V RAJAAN, a vessel owned by the Dianella Shipping Corp. The RAJAAN had…
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