Barber Lines A/s v. M/v Donau Maru

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Robins Dry Dock bars claim by vessel delayed in using Boston Harbor due to defendant vessel’s oil spill
• “The number of persons suffering foreseeable financial harm in a typical accident is likely to be far greater than those who suffer traditional (recoverable) physical harm.”
• “The number of persons suffering foreseeable financial harm in a typical accident is likely to be far greater than those who suffer traditional (recoverable) physical harm.”
• plaintiffs cannot recover damages for “negligently caused financial harm, even when foreseeable, except in special circumstances”; the “most common such special circumstance” is “physical injury to the plaintiffs or to their property”
• collecting cases articulating exceptions to the economic-loss doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).