Marion McDaniel has experience covering the full range of admiralty and maritime law. He has handled first and third party personal injury/death lawsuits emanating from the blue water, brown water, and onshore/offshore energy industries, including claims premised on product liability and toxic tort law. In addition, he has considerable experience in the marine and energy insurance fields, both in first and third party claims and in the areas of indemnity, charter party, contract of carriage, environmental/pollution, cargo damage, and maritime collision/allision. He has been involved in vessel arrests, documentation and arrests. Mr. McDaniel has counseled clients in several catastrophic maritime incidents, including one involving an offshore drilling contractor in the 1988 explosion and fire on the PIPER ALPHA platform in the North Sea, which resulted in some 165 death claims and total loss of the structure.
Education
- LL.B., The University of Texas School of Law, 1964
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1961
Bar Admissions
Admitted To Practice
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Representative Experience
- Experience in full range of admiralty and maritime law.
- Extensive experience in the handling of first and third party personal injury/death lawsuits emanating from the blue water, brown water, and onshore/offshore energy industries including claims premised on product liability and toxic tort law.
- Considerable experience in the marine and energy insurance fields, both first and third party claims. Considerable experience in the indemnity, charter party, contracts of carriage, environmental/pollution, cargo damage and maritime collision/allision areas.
- Significant experience in several major maritime catastrophic incidents such as representation of offshore drilling contractor in the 1988 explosion and fire on the PIPER ALPHA platform in the North Sea which resulted in some 165 death claims and total loss of the structure.
- Tried numerous jury and nonjury personal injury/death, Jones Act seaman and third party cases. Several trials in collision, cargo damage and limitation of liability areas.
- Extensive experience in counseling marine and energy clients on drilling contracts, master service agreements, and construction contracts with particular emphasis on insurance and contractual indemnity provisions/issues.
Reported Decisions
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Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. M/T Nelly Maersk, his engines, etc., et al, 1983 AMC 472 (1983)
Publications & Presentations
- Practice of Maritime Law, Federal Bar Association, Houston Chapter 1981
- Maritime Liability Issues: A Contemporary Analysis, State Bar of Texas, Admiralty/Maritime Law Seminar, 1991
- Vessel Owners Maintenance and Cure Obligations: Avoidance of Punitive Damage Exposure, National Waterways Conference, Seminar on Personal Injury Liability Under the Jones Act, 1992
- The Court's New Emphasis Regarding the "Experience, Training or Education" of a Jones Act Seaman, 21st Annual Texas Sea Grant College Program Marine Safety Seminar, March 26, 1998
- Marine and Offshore Incident Investigation Procedures and Protocol, 22nd Annual Texas Sea Grant College Program, Marine Safety Seminar, 1999
Professional History
- Of Counsel, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
- Former Partner, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney
- Law Clerk, Federal District Judge Joe J. Fisher, Eastern District of Texas (1964-1966)
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America, Maritime Law (2006-Present)
- Member, Houston Bar Association
- Member, State Bar Association
- Member, Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
- Member (Proctor), The Maritime Law Association of the United States (Board of Directors, 1996-1999)
- Member, Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute
- Member, Planning Committee, Houston Marine Insurance Seminar (1977-2001, Marine Insurance Seminars, Inc. (Board of Directors, 1990-2001)
- Member, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Inc.
Community Leadership
- Board of Directors, West Lane Place Civic Association
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