Maritime Comparative Responsibility Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Maritime Comparative Responsibility Act - Provides that, in any action for personal injury, death, or both, arising out of a maritime tort which occurs on or after the date of enactment of this Act: (1) any contributory fault chargeable to a claimant shall diminish proportionately the amount awarded as compensatory damages for an injury attributable to the claimant's contributory fault but shall not bar recovery; and (2) legal causation requirements shall apply both to fault as the basis for liability and to contributory fault. Requires the court, in an action involving fault of more than one party to the action (unless otherwise agreed by all parties), to instruct the jury to answer special interrogatories (or if there is no jury, to make findings) indicating: (1) the amount of damages each claimant would be entitled to recover if contributory fault is disregarded; (2) the percentage in which the contributory fault, if any, of each claimant has contributed to causing that claimant's injury; and (3) the proportionate relationship of the fault of each of the other parties to each claim. (Authorizes the court, for this purpose, to determine that two or more persons be treated as a si…