Stahl v. Northern Assurance Co. of America

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• affirming dismissal of admiralty action brought by American resident and arising out of the collision of Alcoa’s ship with a pier located in Trinidad
• maximum recovery of $570,000 in foreign forum versus $8,000,000 in United States does not render foreign forum inadequate
• dismissal on forum non conveniens upheld despite $570,000 limit on recovery in Trinidad forum, as opposed to $8 million in United States forum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).