Webinar: Making Waves: Penalties, Verdicts, Lost Submersibles and More! – Examining Significant Developments in Maritime Law in the First Half of 2023

This panel will examine significant developments for the first half of 2023 in the shipping industry and supply chain and the passenger vessel industry. The panel will also explore developments in marine insurance coverage and seaman status as well as the rising amounts of both jury and bench verdicts. The panel will examine the legal issues involved, provide an analysis of those issues, and views from the attorney, vessel operator and P&I club perspective. The panel will also look ahead to the rest of 2023 and beyond and discuss how the developments currently affect the different industries and areas of maritime law and what impacts could be felt in the years to come.

Presented by the Admiralty Law Section.

About the Presenters

Moderator: Matthew A. Moeller, Owner & Managing Attorney, The Moeller Firm LLC
Matthew’s experience and practice primarily includes the representation of vessel owner and operators, contractors, and shipyards as well as other businesses in maritime, construction and commercial disputes. This experience includes the defense of Jones Act, Longshore Harbor and Worker’s Compensation Act, and maritime personal injury claims, maritime contractual disputes and maritime property damage matters, as well as the representation of marine insurers in insurance coverage matters. Matthew’s experience also includes the defense of insurers, hotel operators, and transportation companies in land-based personal injury actions.

Eric Denley, Deputy General Counsel, Hornblower Group
Strategically-minded, team-oriented attorney and maritime professional with over 25 years of experience leading technically rigorous maritime operations and solving consequential maritime, regulatory and commercial legal issues.

Jessica Link Martyn, Of Counsel, Rawle & Henderson
Ms. Martyn is a Proctor in Admiralty and co-leads the Firm’s Maritime Practice Group. Throughout her career as a maritime lawyer, Ms. Martyn has focused on resolving disputes on behalf of shipowners and operators and their insurers in vessel, cargo, and environmental casualty cases, commercial matters, and personal injury and death claims brought under the Jones Act, section 905(b) of the LHWCA, and the general maritime law. She has broad experience with matters of admiralty jurisdiction and procedure, including vessel arrests and attachments, limitation actions, apportionment of damages, maritime government contractor liability, and litigation against the U.S. government in admiralty.

Emily McCollough, Head of Claims (Americas), West of England P&I Club
A qualified lawyer, Emily has significant P&I and Defence experience across all areas of claims. She joined the West from another International Group Club as a Syndicate Manager and, prior to that, worked both in-house with a UK shipowner and within a City law firm. Ms. McCulloch advises on disputes under charterparties and Contracts of Affreightment including off-hire, underperformance claims and recovering disputed/undisputed demurrage on behalf of Members. Her expertise also includes handling P&I and DTH claims from notification to resolution, such as bunker disputes, contact damage, cargo claims and personal injury.

Corey P. Parenton, Attorney, Staines, Eppling & Kenney, LLC
Corey’s practice focuses primarily on admiralty and maritime litigation, and he has established a successful appellate record including a large additur for a personal injury plaintiff, dismissal by the Louisiana Supreme Court on a suit filed in an improper forum, reduction of a general damages award by a maritime personal injury plaintiff, a determination of vessel status for limitations, and reversal of a general damage award for a property damage claim. Corey is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit, United States District Courts, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana and all state courts in Louisiana and Texas.

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• Nonmember: $75

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