United States Eleventh Circuit

In case involving a slip and fall injury to a seaman, denial of plaintiffs' motion to strike defendant's request for punitive damages is affirmed as the case of Hines v. J.A. LaPorte, Inc., 820 F.2d 1187 (11th Cir. 1987), which permits a seaman to recover punitive damages when an employer arbitrarily and willfully refuses to pay maintenance and cure, is still binding law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/23/2007
• Published 08/23/2007

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and CARNES and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerard Joseph Sullivan, Jr., Sullivan & Co., Jacksonville, FL, for Townsend.


• For Appellees:
  
• David W. McCreadie, Eddie G. Godwin, Michael Kestenbaum, Lau, Lane, Pieper, Conley & McCreadie, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants.