Estate of De'Angelo Brown v. E.C. West

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How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “no private agreement is competent to abrogate” the shipowner’s duty to pay maintenance and cure
• acknowledging that “there may be no duty to the seaman to carry a physician”
• tracing the development of the basic rule in the state courts, and recognizing the influence which those state “judges of great learning, for courts of last resort of states having much to do with maritime pursuits,” had on the rule’s development in the federal courts
• oil rig worker sued his employer, under the Jones Act; the vessel owner, for unseaworthiness; and a third party contractor, for negligence
• seamen injured in the course of their employment may seek remedies under the provisions of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act 45 U.S.C. §§ 51-60
• nondelegable duty of railroad's examining physician certifying injured railroad worker back to job

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