Damage Award for Yacht Owner Upheld

By Deborah Elkins
Published: December 27, 2011

Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Admiralty, Judge Allyson K. Duncan

When the captain of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessel fell asleep at the wheel and struck plaintiff’s 70-foot yacht, the Marquessa, docked at the pier at Ocean Marine marina in Portsmouth, the yacht was a constructive total loss based on two of three opinions in this battle of the experts, and the 4th ...

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