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What Does Biden’s Baltimore Bridge Promise Mean?
Read Time: 1 minMaritime attorney José Cot (New Orleans) was quoted in a March 28 article in World Ports about the Francis Scott Key bridge accident in Baltimore.
José R Cot, an experienced maritime litigation and insurance attorney at McGlinchey Stafford, said that Admiralty Law presumes that the moving vessel is at fault in the case of an allision, but this can be contested. Cot said that the shipowner could argue that the damage would not have been as serious if the pier had been better protected. “There has been a historical interest in making Fender systems a lot more robust, such that if you have these types of allisions – which are bound to happen – that they do not damage the bridge structure itself. I do think that those representing the vessel interest would probably raise that.”