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The Illinois First District Appellate Court recently issued a decision that reversed a trial court's ruling, and granted a judgment notwithstanding the verdict on appeal.

In May, US consumer confidence rose unexpectedly for the first time in four months, driven by less negative views on business conditions and the labor market.

Canada's two largest railroads, Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), locked out over 9,000 employees...

On December 12, 2011, the Maritime Administration ("MARAD") issued a Notice of Small Shipyard Grant Program, which will provide for financial assistance to small shipyards (the "Grant Program").

For the past sixty years, and until January 11, 2013, U.S. federal courts routinely have applied the comparatively expansive (and potentially creditor-friendly) "maritime law of veil piercing" when examining veil-piercing and/or alter ego claims in Rule B maritime attachment (i.e., security) proceedings and maritime judgment enforcement cases.

So often the maritime disasters in and around the United States that garner the trade press headlines or U.S. Supreme Court rulings occur off the coasts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico.

Aregular feature of AlixPartners' Annual Container Shipping Report is a section detailing trends to watch in the coming year.

Last month, we released our fifth annual AlixPartners Disruption Index (ADI), the firm's signature piece of thought leadership. The ADI surveys more than 3,000 CEOs and senior executives...

In the legal battle of competing maritime lien claims against vessels whose charterers contracted with O.W. Bunker & Trading A/S or its affiliates in October-November 2014, an important decision was issued on June 13, 2018...

On April 30, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), together with several original co-sponsors, reintroduced the SHIPS for America Act in the U.S. Senate, first introduced in December 2024...

On March 10, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in a case entitled “Eli Lilly and Company, et al. v. Air Express International USA, Inc. d/b/a DHL Global Forwarding, et al.”

Just when we thought the question of "What Is a Package?" had been addressed ad nauseum, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York took another look at the issue.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied the California Trucking Association's (CTA) petition for certiorari related to a case involving federal preemption of California Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5)...

The International Group of P&I Clubs (IG) has announced an amendment to the Inter-Club New York Produce Exchange Agreement 2011 (ICA).

Confusion as to which incidents constitute marine casualties and need to be reported has persisted in the marine industry for years.

The Court Unanimously Holds That Insurance Contract Choice-of-Law Clauses Are Presumptively Enforceable Under Federal Maritime Law...

New United States Trade Representative (USTR) port fees on certain Chinese-built vessels, vessels with Chinese owners or operators and foreign-built vehicle carriers...