El Faro Owners File Suit To Block Legal Action By Families Of Crew

Just hours before the Navy homed in on what’s believed to be the wreckage of missing American cargo ship El Faro, lawyers for the owner of the ship went to court in an action that one maritime attorney calls "highly insensitive to the families" of the sunken ship’s crew. In a complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, El Faro owner TOTE Maritime claims "exoneration from or limitation of liability" in any claims the families of crew members might file.