The team of Odesa office of Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm acted as legal advisor for a Greek vessel owner and one of the British P&I Club in the process of settling the claims of reimbursing the contract compensation in connection with loss of working ability, as well as of the moral damages, filed by a Ukrainian seafarer.<\/p>\n
While on an assignment on the territory of the USA when employed on a foreign-flagged vessel, a Ukrainian seafarer felt himself unwell and was urgently admitted to a local hospital, which, however, did not prevent grave consequences for his health that the seafarer attributes directly to his work onboard of the vessel.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, the seafarer\u2019s representatives filed several lawsuits to the USA courts against the vessel (in rem<\/em>) and against the vessel owner (in personam<\/em>) at a time, as well as arrested the vessel at the local port.<\/p>\n In close cooperation with leading American law firms, attorneys of Ilyashev & Partners acted as legal advisors under Ukrainian law and supported the process of executing the appropriate settlement agreements.<\/p>\n The dispute was eventually resolved in an amicable way by signing with the seafarer the settlement agreement under the USA laws and further by retrieving from the seafarer of a notarial waiver of any claims under Ukrainian law.<\/p>\n As a matter of complete and final settlement of the entirety of claims, the seafarer received a reimbursement worth more than $700,000, which is the largest of known amounts of insurance indemnity, paid to Ukrainian nationals as a result of marine accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The team of Odesa office of Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm acted as legal advisor for a Greek vessel owner and one of the British P&I Club in the process of settling the claims of reimbursing the contract compensation in connection with loss of working ability, as well as of the moral damages, filed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":333328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15576,15575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles-en","category-news-and-articles-from-companies-en","company-16461"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}