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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Pratt partially grants a barge company’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued by a former deckhand alleging unseaworthiness and other maritime claims. While the deckhand’s claims are overall dismissed, he has raised a genuine factual dispute over whether the barge company violated legal requirements on the “maintenance and cure” of its crew by failing to adequately handle a back injury by the deckhand.
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