GORMAN v. PRUDENTIAL LINES, INC.

No. 85 Civ. 830 (WCC).

637 F.Supp. 879 (1986)

Charles G. GORMAN, Plaintiff, v. PRUDENTIAL LINES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

June 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Marc Pellegrino, Albany, N.Y., for plaintiff.

William J. Blumenschein, New York City, for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM C. CONNER, District Judge.

This case is a paradigm of the explosion of tort litigation that has caused a crisis in the liability insurance business — a prototypical exemplar of the virtually universal effort to obtain compensation for every injury or loss regardless of actual fault.

Plaintiff Charles G. Gorman ("Gorman"), a Chief Engineer on the tanker SAROULA owned by defendant Prudential Lines, Inc. ("Prudential...

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