Vermont v. Cox

How courts have described this case

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• holding that humane and liberal character of admiralty law served by permitting non-dependants to recover lost future wages in general maritime survival action
• holding that uniformity is as important in maritime survival actions as it is in maritime wrongful death actions
• permitting the recovery of a decedent’s future lost income under a survival action, not a wrongful death claim
• permitting punitive damages in survival action upon a showing of conduct that manifests reckless or callous disregard for the rights of others or gross negligence or actual malice criminal indifference
• state survival action preempted by conflicting federal maritime survival law
• state survival action preempted by conflicting federal maritime survival law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).