Law360 (July 16, 2021, 4:15 p.m. EDT) – A seaman’s union injured while on temporary day labor aboard a Maersk container ship in New Jersey in 2012 failed to persuade the Third District to resolve the appeal of a district court judgment on Sustaining life excluding claims of negligence against Maersk or a supervising contractor
In a non-preventive decision on Thursday, a three-person panel upheld a January 2020 summary judgment by the New Jersey Federal Court, according to which the claims of marine engineer Jason Fetter against Maersk Line Ltd. blocked by the provisions of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. Claims under the Jones Act, which covers sea workers, were also dismissed without notice …
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