Bruce Edward Cook, Administrator of the Estate of Dennis Brian Cook v. Ross Island Sand and Gravel Company, an Oregon Corporation

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• two and one-half minutes submerged in water sufficient for recovery because drowning victim experienced a period of \heightened awareness\ prior to death
• not allowing damages for “grief, bereavement, anxiety, distress, or mental pain and suffering of a decedent’s beneficiaries” under the Jones Act
• two and one-half minutes submerged in water sufficient for recovery because drowning victim experienced a period of “heightened awareness” prior to death
• court upheld award of damages where similar testimony was presented
• jury could infer consciousness from lack of skull fracture
• claim under the Jones Act

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