Jon Werner

On May 28, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act’s one-year limitation period barred a shipper’s fraud claim against a carrier. In SLT Imports Inc v. SAR...more The United States Court of Appeals recently reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of a volunteer firefighter’s employer, finding that the firefighter, who was injured while aboard a firefighting vessel, should have...more In a unanimous 9-0 decision issued today in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, the Supreme Court has fundamentally altered the liability landscape for the freight brokerage industry. The Court, reversing the Seventh...more For nearly a century, the United States Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA) has granted ocean carriers the right to limit their liability to $500 per package. Yet, because the statute famously declines to define what a...more