Following an alleged incident, the injured Jones Act seaman approached his employer requesting monies in addition to the daily maintenance rate he was receiving as a matter of right. His employer agreed and the parties entered a post-incident wage advance agreement. Like many agreements of this type, the wage advance agreement contained a forum selection […]

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Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Atlantic Sounding v. Townsend, 557 U.S. 404 (2009), there has been a trend in the maritime plaintiff’s bar to include claims for spousal loss of consortium in Jones Act cases. Fortunately, a consensus has begun to develop among the Circuit prohibiting these claims as impermissible non-pecuniary relief. […]