Beverly P. Davis, Wife Of/and Willie Earl Davis v. Odeco, Inc., Murphy Exploration & Production Company, Originally Sued as Odeco, Inc.

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• concluding that payments from an insurance plan funded primarily by the defendant-employer were in the nature of a fringe benefit and thus subject to the collateral source rule
• explaining that “[m]aintenance and cure is a seaman’s right under general maritime law to receive food and lodging (maintenance) and necessary medical services (cure) if he falls ill while in the service of a vessel”
• “[i]n Yeti by Molly, we implicitly recognized this 19 requirement that the district court make a finding as to willfulness, fault, or bad faith when 20 a Rule 37(c)(1) sanction results in dismissal of a cause of action”
• “Technically, the district court was probably incorrect in determining that the Forms literally had no relevance because they were evidence of a collateral source. As the Plan was a collateral source, the Forms were clearly not relevant (and could not be admitted
• “The collateral source rule is a substantive rule of law that bars a tortfeasor from reducing the quantum of damages owed to a plaintiff by the amount of recovery the plaintiff receives from other sources of compensation that are independent of (or collateral to

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