SISTRUNK ET AL.

v.

CIRCLE BAR DRILLING CO.

Citator

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• Lipworth v. Kawasaki Motors Corp. U.S.A., 592 So. 2d 1151 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992)
  …ociety is not recoverable under general maritime law. Thus, as did the Florida Third District Court of Appeal, Texas applied the Miles holding to nonseamen.1 [*1155] In Sistrunk v. Circle Bar Drilling Co., 770 F. 2d 455 (5th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1019, 106 S.Ct. 1205, 89 L.Ed.2d 318 (1986), the Fifth Circuit reversed the district court’s judgment awarding nonde-pendent parents of crew members of a drilling vessel damages under general maritime law for loss of society. It reasoned that denying rec…
• George D. Perlman for City Isles Tr. v. Valdes, 575 So. 2d 216 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990)
  …recover under general maritime law absent a showing of financial dependence on the decedent. Miles v. Apex Marine Corp., — U.S.-, 111 S.Ct. 317, 112 L.Ed.2d 275 (1990); Sistrunk v. Circle Bar Drilling Co., 770 F. 2d 455 (5th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1019, 106 S.Ct. 1205, 89 L.Ed.2d 318 (1986). Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.…
• Coverdell v. The Dep't OF Soc. & Health Servs., 834 F.2d 758 (9th Cir. 1987)
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