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91 Tul. L. Rev. 691 (2016-2017)

handle is hein.journals/tulr91 and id is 747 raw text is: A Confused Sea: Vicarious Liability for Punitive Damages Under Maritime Law John L. Watts* I. INTRODUCTION. ................................ ..... 691 II. THE CURRENT STATUS OF VICARIOUS LIABILITY FOR PuNITVE DAMAGES ........................................697 Ill. TIEAMTABLE(BUT MISUNDERSTOOD) NANCYAND ITS PROGENY. ..........................................707 IV. DETERRENCE, PUNISHMENT, AND OTHER POLICY JUSTIFICATIONS OF VICARIOUS LIABILITY FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES .................................... ......714 A. Respondeat Superior Liability Justifications and Limitations .............................714 B. Justifications for Punitive Damages ............719 1. Deterrence ...............................720 2. Punishment. ..................... .....725 V. Do THE RATIONALES JUSTIFYING VICARIOUS LIABILITY FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES APPLY TO MARITIME LAW? ...............729 A. Technology Enables Employers To Monitor Managerial Employees at Sea......................................730 B. The Difficulty ofDetecting Maritime Torts ................732 C Substantive Maritime Law Produces Insufficient Deterrence. ..............................733 VI. CONCLUSION ............................................737 I. INTRODUCTION On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a massive mobile offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, took the lives of eleven crew members and unleashed a human, economic, * C 2017 John L. Watts. Associate Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law; J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude, 1996; B.A., University of Maryland, sunma cum laude, 1992. The author would like to acknowledge his research assistant, Molly Neace, for her patience and diligent assistance. 691

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