Earl J. Picou v. American Offshore Fleet, Inc.

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• trial court awarded attorney’s fees and punitive damages because shipowner, in face of seaman’s attempts to obtain maintenance and cure, failed to investigate claim and to pay maintenance
• noting the district court found the defendant failed to investigate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).