Christopher M. Hannan · Sara B. Kuebel · John A. "Jack" Martone · Markus E. Apelis · Jason R. Harris · Marissa A. Dunsmore
A client walks in injured on a dock, a recreational boat, an offshore platform — and you work it up as a routine state tort or comp claim. Then federal admiralty jurisdiction attaches, and state law no longer controls. Recent Supreme Court and circuit decisions have sharpened the reach of maritime jurisdiction, and the consequences…