Edwards v. Boeing Vertol Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \a shipowner's right to indemnity against a land-locked physician who negligently treats a patient injured at sea is governed by state law\
• stating that “a shipowner’s right to indem nity against a land-locked physician who negligently treats a patient injured at sea is governed by state law”
• holding that where a seaman incurs out-of-pocket costs or is forced to take on other hardships or life changes as a result of medical expenses, a shipowner is not entitled to set off funds that the seaman receives from his medical insurer
• distinguishing cases where seamen “alone paid the medical insurance premiums” or “was forced to work to survive” from cases where seamen “lived off the charity of others”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).