5th Circuit: Maritime Insurer Cannot Recover Benefits Paid For Seaman’s Injuries

(October 17, 2023, 10:33 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a federal court’s ruling that an insurer has a duty to pay the maintenance and cure under a maritime protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance policy for a seaman’s injuries that he incurred while employed on a lift boat, finding that the limitation on the insurer’s waiver of subrogation is not applicable....