The lawsuit between Seattle-based Cooke subsidiary Icicle Seafoods and New Jersey-based AP Moller Maersk has been dismissed.

Icicle brought the suit against Maerk alleging the shipping firm failed to maintain temperature control on a shipment of Pacific cod worth $85,000 (€75,344).

On Aug. 31, the case was "voluntarily discontinued with prejudice and without costs, no party having answered or otherwise appeared in the action."

This means "Maersk paid money to settle the claim albeit without admitting any fault in causing the damage," plaintiff attorney Martin Casey, of Casey & Barnett, told IntraFish.

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