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Longshore Act Question Number 8
What Does “Joint and Several” Liability Mean? And What Does “Several Not Joint” Liability Mean? And Why Is This Very Important? As Yogi Berra never said, “Sometimes I chew more than I bite off”. This...
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Longshore Act Question Number 12
Can You Exclude Corporate Officers Under the Longshore Act? In answer to the previous question regarding joint and several liability we saw how much trouble the corporate officers of an uninsured...
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Longshore Act Question Number 13
What Is a Subdivision of a State Government? This question concerns employees who may or who may not be covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, depending on who the employer is....
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Longshore Act Question Number 5
What’s the Difference Between the Jones Act and the Longshore Act? There’s a big difference. And for maritime employers, it is frequently difficult to recognize the difference between the two Acts and...
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The Defense Base Act
The Defense Base Act (42 U.S.C. 1651) is a workers’ compensation law that extends the benefits of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act to employees outside of the continental United...
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Longshore Act Question Number 1- Do I Need Longshore Act Insurance?
If you go to the U.S. Department of Labor’s website (dol.gov), find your way under Agencies to Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs and then to the Division of Longshore and Harbor Workers’...
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Longshore Act Question Number 2 – Where Can I Buy Longshore Act Insurance?
This is an important question, because there are serious consequences in the law if the maritime employer fails to meet the insurance requirement in section 932 of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’...
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Oil Spill Dilemmas
Insurance carriers and brokers are puzzling through the coverage dilemmas presented by the Deepwater Horizon cleanup efforts. Are the shore side cleanup workers covered by state workers’ compensation...
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ISSUE: Coverage – Status
Review Section 902(3) of the Longshore Act is the “STATUS” coverage provision. It states, “The term ‘employee’ means any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other...
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ISSUE: Recurring Question
Some questions come up over and over again. One such question involves foreign workers and/or foreign employers in the United States. Does the Longshore Act cover foreign workers? Does the Longshore...
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ISSUE: Landmark Longshore Act cases – Number Six
Before I get to number six on my list of landmark Longshore Act cases decided at the U.S. Supreme Court, here is the list of numbers one to five as discussed here in the past couple of months....
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AEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Maritime “status” for “salespeople” and “estimators”
The question arose recently as to whether salespeople and estimators are covered under the Longshore Act. This is a very imprecise and incomplete question, but it can be answered easily. The answer...
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AEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Review of Status, Part One: Truck Drivers, Nurses,...
Coverage questions about maritime “status” under the Longshore Act arise regularly, and the AEU Longshore Blog has addressed different occupations in various posts. Most recently we have discussed the...
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AEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Dredging Operations
Questions regularly arise with regard to Longshore Act coverage for dredging operations. These operations present several key coverage issues worth discussing. Overview Dredging is usually done to...
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AEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Review of Status, Part Two: Construction Workers,...
This is Part Two of a compilation of occupation-specific status discussions from past AEU Longshore blog postings. Construction Workers A few years back, we covered the Longshore Act status of...
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