For more than 20 years, we have handled maritime cases for cargo and P&I insurers, as well as for shipyards, salvors, charters and marine lenders. Our experience in this field includes foreclosure on preferred commercial vessel mortgages and pleasure yachts, cruise lines and excursion vessels; the prosecution and defense of various salvage claims; and prosecution, limitation and exoneration claims for cargo vessels destroyed by dockside fire, in addition to various oil pollution damage cases.

• Achieving a judgment after trial for London underwriters who had rejected a claim under a marine transport policy for an alleged multi-million dollar gold theft on the ground that the theft was staged to cover up an embezzlement scheme. Judgment was entered for the underwriters on the insured’s claim and on the counterclaim for return of $2 million on account.
• Successfully defending a hull insurer in a fraudulent vandalism and theft suit.
• Negotiating favorable settlements for the owner of a square rigger in a multiple death liability suit after the vessel sank during a training cruise.
• Overseeing and coordinating a contractual clean-up operation for a barge owner whose barge ran aground and leaked oil.
• Securing a limitations judgment for the owner of a recreational charter catamaran.