"The wrongful death claimants therefore sustained their burden of proving unseaworthiness and there remained only the issue of whether or not one or more of the conditions of unseaworthiness or some other agency caused the disaster.
22.
"The wrongful death claimants therefore sustained their burden of proving unseaworthiness and there remained only the issue of whether or not one or more of the conditions of unseaworthiness or some other agency caused the disaster.
23.
It is for these reasons that throughout the long history of the maritime law the right to maintenance and cure, and later the right to indemnity for injuries attributable to unseaworthiness, have been confined to seamen.
24.
Because the Florida Supreme Court had previously held that Florida's wrongful death statute did not encompass unseaworthiness as a basis of liability, the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of Moragne's unseaworthiness claim.
25.
Because the Florida Supreme Court had previously held that Florida's wrongful death statute did not encompass unseaworthiness as a basis of liability, the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of Moragne's unseaworthiness claim.
26.
By 1970, when Moragne was decided, claims premised on unseaworthiness had become " the principal vehicle for recovery " by seamen and other maritime workers injured or killed in the course of their employment.
27.
While unseaworthiness was the doctrine immediately at stake in Moragne, the right of action, as stated in the Court's opinion, is " for death caused by violation of maritime duties ."
28.
Some of the English ships had been sent home mainly due to disease and / or unseaworthiness; others had separated & they too went back home; there were now only five ships in total with Leveson.
29.
9 . As noted earlier, unseaworthiness recovery by longshore workers was terminated by Congress in its 1972 amendments to the Longshore and Harbor Workers'Compensation Act, 33 U . S . C . s901 et seq.
30.
Lt . Melissa Schuermann, spokeswoman for the U . S . Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain, said Monday that Navy officials did not know if the sailors were aware of the vessel's unseaworthiness before boarding it.
