United States Fourth Circuit

In an admiralty action based on a slip and fall accident, judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed in part, where there was sufficient evidence that Defendant created the dangerous condition, but reversed in part, where the District Court erred in awarding prejudgment interest on Plaintiff's Jones Act claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/11/2009
• Published 03/11/2009

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and RICHARD L. VOORHEES, United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Bryan K. Meals, McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellants.  Stevenson Lee Weeks, Sr., Wheatly, Wheatly, Weeks & Lupton, P.A., Beaufort, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Jonathan H. Edgar, McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Charlotte, North Carolina;  William H. Baxter, II, McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants.