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DIZE v. ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND PILOTS

No. 56, September Term, 2012.

77 A.3d 1016 (2013)

435 Md. 150

Jennifer Evans DIZE, Personal Representative of the Estate of William Smith Dize v. ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND PILOTS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied November 21, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Bereston (Michael H. Bereston, P.A., Annapolis, MD; Robert E. Joyce , Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

James W. Bartlett , III ( Alexander M. Giles of Semmes , Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for respondent.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD and BELL, JJ.

McDONALD, J.

Maritime law has long recognized the "special hazards and disadvantages to which they who go down to sea in ships are subjected," especially exposure to "the perils of the sea ... with little opportunity to avoid those dangers or to discover and protect themselves from them."1 When maritime workers at sea suffer sickness or injury, they are entirely at the mercy of their employer, and it is often said that they are "wards...

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