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Oil Pollution
Tidewater Yacht Agency, Inc, v. National Shipping Company of Saudi
Arabia and Moran Towing Company of Virginia, At Law No. 94-1659, Circuit
Court for the City of Portsmouth.
Represented NSCSA in defense of an oil pollution clean-up claim by a marina against ship-owner and tug owner claiming $500,000 in clean-up costs and property damage. Both defendants admitted liability under strict liability standards of Virginia's Oil Pollution Liability Statute. Prior to trial, plaintiff demanded settlement in the amount of $241,000. After five jury trial, jury returned a verdict against both defendants in the amount of $100,000.
Complaint of Steuart Transportation Co. (Tank Barge STC-101), 435
F.Supp 798, 1978 A.M.C. 1906, 7 Envt'l L. Rep. 20,658 (E.D.Va. 1977),
aff'd sub. nom. Steuart Transportation Co.v. Allied Towing Corp., 596
F.2d 609, 1979 A.M.C.1187, 12 E.R.C. 2035, 9 Envt'l L. Rep. 20, 237 (4th
Cir. 1979).
Represented owner of oil tank barge in connection with the Chesapeake Bay Oil Spill, petitioning for limitation of liability. The trial court found fault, including privity and knowledge within the meaning of the Limitation of Liability Act, but found there was no gross negligence such as to breach limitation of liability under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1973. The trial court denied the defendant's claim to include funds expeneded by itself and the Commonwealth of Virginia in the stautory clean-up limitation fund.
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