Lee v. Macatawa Bank Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding Jones Act negligence where employer “provided no instruction or training to its crew as to how best to perform the [maritime] task [at hand] ... ”
• defendant presented testimony of vocational expert; court nonetheless awarded seaman undiminished future wages for expected work-life based on inability to return to old job and lack of proof by defendant of skills for less demanding and available work
• in which an unseaworthiness claim succeeded based on findings that a mate “allowed the boat to move out of position (relative to the buoy), thereby causing plaintiff's injury, which likewise reflects the inadequate—in fact, nonexistent—training that defendants provided.”
• addressing training on “pulling line anchors through an open stern”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).