Florida Maritime Law and Practice

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The Sixth Edition of Florida Maritime Law and Practice features the contributions of a of a group of authors and experts, and well as a dedicated steering committee. It is the ideal guide for Florida practitioners, with a focus on Florida-specific statutes, case law, and rules. The comprehensive source also cites to applicable secondary sources, as well as federal statutes and case law, and international law.

The Sixth Edition includes:

• Updated case law, statutes, rules, and regulations. 
• Discussion of hot topics including:
  • Updated, in-depth discussion and application of maintenance and cure as a remedy for injured seamen.
  • The ability of a seaman to recover maintenance and cure, and the Eleventh Circuit’s recent application of the McCorpen defense as a bar to recovery. Jackson v. NCL America, LLC, 730 F.App'x 786 (11th Cir. 2018).
  • A maritime employer’s reimbursement responsibility when an injured employee goes outside the employer’s network. Jackson v. NCL America, LLC, 730 F.App’x 786 (11th Cir. 2018).
  • Forum Selection Clauses and Florida courts’ recent creation of a judicial exception to the statutory right to trial by jury, upholding the validity of a Forum Selection Clause in the contract of a Jones Act seaman, requiring all civil personal injury lawsuits to be filed in a foreign jurisdiction.
  • Updated, in-depth discussion of The Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and its application in arbitration proceedings.
  • Cruise ships’ duty to protect passengers from known dangers (either actual or constructive notice), and the benchmark against which shipowners’ behavior must be measured.
  • Department of Labor’s new Notice of Payments Form LS-208, now acting as the form used to report all payments of compensation in workers’ compensation cases.
  • Newly issued Division of Federal Employees Compensation Bulletin 18-03, assisting maritime practitioners in formulating Defense Base Act and War Hazards Compensation Act reimbursement claims.
  • Courts’ exercising of constructive in rem jurisdiction over scattered shipwrecks when the courts constructively possess parts of the scattered wrecks. Salvors, Inc. v. Unidentified Wrecked & Abandoned Vessel, 861 F.3d 1278 (11th Cir. 2017).
  • The improper use of cell phones and other “smart” devices as a basis for fault in maritime collision cases.
  • New discussion regarding maritime security law and the Maritime Security Transportation Act of 2002’s mandatory evaluation of effectiveness of anti-terrorism measures in foreign ports, and the imposition of conditions of entry into the United States.
  • New discussion regarding maritime security law and cyber security.

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