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10 In the Matter of Cambria Steamship Co.
Nos. 73-1349-50
that the action exists primarily for the benefit of individual
beneficiaries, and general losses to the estate are not recover-
able. Moragne and Sea-Land Services v. Gaudet speak con-
sistently in terms of dependents:
"In overruling The Harrisburg, Moragne ended these
anomalies by the creation of a uniform federal cause of
action for maritime death, designed to extend to the
dependents of maritime wrongful-death victims admi-
ralty's 'special solicitude for the welfare of those men
who under[take]. to venture upon hazardous and unpre-
dictable sea voyages.' Moragne, supra, at 387. Our lap-
proach to the resolution of the issue before us must
necessarily be consistent with the extension of this "special
solicitude' to the dependents of the seafaring decedent.'
Sea-Land Services v. Gaudet, 414 U.S. at 577
In our view, the liberal and humanitarian character of maritime
proceedings as expressed in Moragne and Gaudet, supra, con-
templates solicitude for dependents, not inanimate estates.
In so holding, we do not rule that certain specialized losses such
as funeral expenses may not nonetheless by recovered by the
estate, as is the case in several states premising primarily re-
covery on a beneficiary rather than an estate theory.15
NON-DEPENDENT BROTHER AS BENEFICIARY
Many of the reasons for rejecting the claim of Crawley's
estate apply as well to the claim of Frederick Rischmiller.
We recognize at the outset that loss of prospective inheri-
tance is frequently held a proper element of damages which
are awarded qualified beneficiaries. Thus it is allowed under
the Death on the High Seas Act, National Airlines, Inc. v. Stiles,
268 F. 2d 400 (5th Cir. 1959) and the Federal Employers
15 See, e.g. Illinois Revised Stats. ch. 70 § 2, where it is provided
that the estate may recover up to $900 for hospitalization, medical and
funeral expenses, and other administrative costs, where no benefici-
ary survives. See also SPEISER, supra, at 66.
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