Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act
A federal law designed to provide workers'-compensation benefits to persons, other than seamen, who work in maritime occupations, esp. stevedoring and ship service. 33 USCA ยง 901. - Abbr. LHWCA. "Employees who are engaged in maritime-related activities but who do not qualify as 'seamen' may be classified as 'maritime workers' entitled to the benefits provided by the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act . . . . Persons covered by the act, which has the attributes of the usual workers' compensation law, include (1) employees injured on the Outer Continental Shelf in the course of mineral exploration and production activities, and (2) employees within American territorial waters who fall within the Congressional definition of a 'maritime worker,' and who are injured on 'navigable waters'." Frank L. Maraist, Admiralty in a Nutshell 44 (2d ed. 1988).
Longshoreman
A maritime laborer, such as a stevedore, who works on the wharves in a port; a person who loads and unloads ships.
Shore
1. Land lying between the lines of highand low-water mark; lands bordering on the shores of navigable waters below the line of ordinary high water. 2. Land adjacent to a body of water regardless of whether it is below or above the ordinary high- or low-water mark. -Also termed shore land.