PIRES v. BRASILEIRA


240 A.D.2d 323 (1997)

659 N.Y.S.2d 26

S.M. Pires et al., Respondents, v. Frota Oceanica Brasileira, S. A., Appellant, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 24, 1997


We previously held in Public Adm'r of County of N. Y. v Frota Oceanica Brasileira (222 A.D.2d 332, lv dismissed 88 N.Y.2d 920) that damages for nonpecuniary loss are unavailable under general maritime law, and that punitive damages are nonpecuniary damages such that punitive damages are also unavailable under general maritime law. It is now settled...

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