News & Events

NBF attorney Larry Altenbrun attended a hearing yesterday with the Washington Resource Damages Assessment Committee and negotiated an agreement with the State of Washington concerning natural resource damages from a 2016 oil spill in Washington waters. The agreement, reached after months of transparent communications, reflects a cooperative and creative resolution to this matter and demonstrates that public and private interests can often be mutually served through engagement, mutual respect, and open dialogue. The agreement includes funding for a project that is important to Washington State Parks. Our client is proud to be helping to benefit the Parks. It was a win-win solution.

NBF attorney and aspiring blogger Larry Altenbrun recently published an article on LinkedIn titled “Punitive Damages in Maritime Law: 5 Things To Know.” Check it out: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/punitive-damages-maritime-law-5-things-know-larry-altenbrun/.

NBF attorney Chris Reilly passed the test for the P&I Qualification Module 1: The Shipping Business, which is the first module in a qualification process for the P&I industry produced by the International Group of P&I Clubs.

Congratulations to NBF attorneys Chris Nicoll, Rivers Black and Curt Feig, who were again named as “Super Lawyers” by Super Lawyers Magazine for 2018.  

NBF attorney Chris Nicoll gave an hour long presentation at a luncheon seminar of the Marine Insurance Association of Seattle entitled “Coverage Considerations in Addressing Product Contamination and Recalls.” The topic focused on the competing and often overlapping types of coverages that can be implicated in product contaminations and recalls.

NBF Attorneys Chris Nicoll and Larry Altenbrun presented at the Current Issues in Maritime Law 2018 CLE in Tacoma, WA on May 18, 2018. Chris presented on “Big Changes in the Law of Personal Jurisdiction: a Survey of Recent Supreme Court Opinions Goodyear to Bristol-Myers Squibb” while Larry participated in a panel discussion titled, “Not a Puny Concern: The Pursuit and Defense of Punitive Damages Claims in Maritime Actions — From the Practical to Predictions.”

NBF attorneys Chris Nicoll and Jeremy Jones obtained for their client an award of over $300,000 for attorneys’ fees and costs following a successful outcome at trial.

NBF attorneys Chris Nicoll, Noah Jaffe and Jeremy Jones filed a Petition for Certiorari with the U. S. Supreme Court in an important personal jurisdiction case arising out of an accident on a Norwegian ship in Uruguay.

Congratulations to NBF attorneys Jeremy Jones and Noah Jaffe, who were both recently admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

NBF attorneys Chris Nicoll and Jeremy Jones obtained a defense verdict for an international freight forwarder following trial in federal court. Chris and Jeremy argued that their client was not liable for over $700,000 in demurrage and related claims due to alleged delays unloading a cargo ship in South America. After favorable resolution of certain of the claims on summary judgment, the case proceeded to trial where the court granted a motion for directed verdict after the plaintiff rested its case.