Reshipper Admiralty & Maritime Lawyer, Florida, page 2

David Merriken was the executive director of American Maritime Officers' Plans from 1995-2000. The Plans are trusts created for the benefit of past and present workers of members of the American Maritime Officers Union, constituting around 4,000 officers serving in the ...

... clause. We also are mindful that until relatively recently, forum-selection clauses, including those found in admiralty and maritime contracts, have not been favored by American courts. See The Bremen, 407 US at 9, 92 S.Ct. 1907. ...

... When recovery is denied to any person in a suit brought at law or in admiralty to recover damages for injury or death on the ground that such person was an employee, that the defendant was an employer within the meaning of this chapter, and that such employer had secured ...