Helen Shaw v. Ohio River Company

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that shipowner could set off the medical expenses paid for by a health insurance plan it provided to its seamen at no expense to themselves
• explaining that medical coverage was paid for at employer’s expense, rather than the seaman’s, as required by collective bargaining agreement
• finding that a shipowner was entitled to a set-off for the medical expenses paid for by a health insurance plan it provided to its seamen at no expense to themselves
• noting that accumulated leave time is a component of wages
• Blue Cross Blue Shield payments under policy paid for by employer setoff from recovery for maintenance and cure
• “It is clear that in the absence of an explicit contractual provision specifying that accumulated leave time pay or other wages is to be deemed a substitute for maintenance, there is no basis for crediting such earned wages against the vessel owner’s maintenance obligation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).