Whitman v. Miles

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that an injured seaman is entitled to maintenance and cure until MMR is reached
• finding that seaman was not entitled to continuing maintenance and cure where her multiple sclerosis (“MS”
• denying maintenance and cure on the basis that slowing or arresting the medical condition, in this instance multiple sclerosis, by a drug “ ‘is not the same as effecting an improvement’ ”
• “The right to 22 maintenance and cure applies only to ‘seamen’ who are injured or fall ill while ‘in service of 23 the ship.’”
• “The testimony of the doctors for both parties leaves no gen uine issue of material fact that [the plaintiffs] treatment ... would not reverse her symptoms or improve her condition beyond the point of maximum medical recovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).