United States Fifth Circuit

An award of maintenance and cure damages is not duplicative of a seaman's award for future medical expenses to the extent the medical expense award is reduced by the seaman's comparative fault.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2002
• Published 01/15/2002

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, SMITH and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy Jay Ungar,George W. Byrne, Jr., Kristi Ann Post (argued), Ungar & Byrne, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Damon Craddock Miller (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.