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02/26/2024

Farewell Professor Bridwell, you were a gentleman and a scholar.

View Robert Randall Bridwell's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

02/26/2024

https://hinesandgilsenan.com/new-marine-insurance-case-from-supreme-court/

Discussion of a U.S. Supreme Court case on Choice of Law Clauses in Marine Insurance Policies

02/03/2021

As a Virginia grad and Charleston adjunct, I like these numbers! (Hines)

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts this week, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual...

01/11/2021

Amazing wreck removal operation south of us

The heavy lift vessel VB-10000 has lifted the stern section of the Golden Ray onto a barge after completing the second of seven cuts in massive wreck removal operation. The...

01/05/2021

Announcing: Hines Law LLC is now Hines & Gilsenan LLC!
www.hinesandgilsenan.com

Hines Law LLC is the law practice of Julius H. Hines (Sam Hines). Hines is a maritime, trade and commercial litigation attorney practising in Charleston, South Carolina. His practice includes recreational boating and yachting law as well appellate advocacy.

01/03/2021

Sharing new website of a friend and colleague who has returned to the marine surveying business

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Clauhs Maritime Consultancy & Surveying is designed to solve your issues in the Maritime world from damaged cargo claims for International P & I clubs to vessel stow plans and everything in between. Clauhs Maritime Consultancy & Surveying offers Marine Surveying including:Damaged Cargo SurveysVessel...

12/25/2020

Maligayang Pasko! Have a great Christmas and a blessed 2021.

12/23/2020

This post may be of interest to boaters with insurance on their vessels

Students of marine insurance will be familiar with the doctrine of uberrimae fidei, a Latin term meaning “utmost good faith.” The doctrine, which dates back to the early days of marine insurance, requires the insured (or “assured,” as the English say) to tell the marine underwriter about all...

12/18/2020

New blog post

A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently grappled with the significance, in crew injury cases, of orders from masters and other ship’s officers to members of the crew. Knight v. Kirby Offshore Pacific[1] presented a fairly commonplace fact situation: Knight, a s...