I was participating on a take down of the Pirate ship and experienced a brown out.
I lost connection to the server and had to log back in.
When I logged back in, I logged onto the wrong toon.
I went over to the ship and helped take it down.
Once the ship was killed I got my loot.
Then I logged on the original toon that I had started with and he got loot also.
So it appears that losing connection will allow multiple toons to get loot.