WILLIAMS v. MARITIME, INC.

No. 04-CA-625.

889 So.2d 1055 (2004)

Eugene WILLIAMS v. MARITIME, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

November 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Carey Wicker, III, New Orleans, LA, Michael P. Ciaccio, Gretna, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee.

John F. Young, Metairie, LA, Thomas J. Wagner, Jr., Thomas A. Rayer, Jr., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellant.

Panel composed of Judges EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., MARION F. EDWARDS and WALTER J. ROTHSCHILD.


EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., defendant-appellant, from a $767,983.50 judgment in favor of Eugene Williams, plaintiff-appellee, in this Jones Act /maritime law action. Williams has answered the appeal. For the following reasons we amend the judgment to specify that prejudgment interest is awarded only on past damages and that only 50% the $300,000 general damage award is to be used in calculating the total of past...

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