Seaman and maritime worker injuries
Expert information to help you understand your rights and options
The Jones Act provides unique protections for seamen injured at sea—including the right to sue employers for negligence and guaranteed maintenance and cure benefits regardless of fault. Maritime injury claims differ fundamentally from land-based accidents. Learn your rights as a maritime worker.
Maintenance and cure provides injured seamen with living expenses and medical care regardless of who was at fault—a unique maritime benefit. Employers who unreasonably deny these benefits face punitive damages. Learn maintenance and cure amounts, duration, and enforcing your rights.
What to do when your maritime employer wrongfully terminates maintenance and cure payments and your legal remedies for recovery.
Understanding when jack-up drilling rigs qualify as vessels under maritime law and how this affects worker injury claims.
Jones Act benefits require seaman status—a threshold determination that depends on your connection to a vessel in navigation. Courts apply specific tests that exclude many offshore and dock workers. Learn seaman status requirements, qualifying vessels, and how courts determine coverage.
Understanding the 30 percent rule that helps determine whether maritime workers qualify as Jones Act seamen based on their vessel connection.
Jones Act negligence claims require proving your employer was at fault for your injury—but the standard is more favorable than ordinary negligence. Even slight employer negligence can support recovery. Learn how to prove Jones Act negligence, employer duties, and damage calculations.
Vessel owners must provide seaworthy ships—free from defects in equipment, crew, or conditions that could injure workers. Unseaworthiness is strict liability requiring no proof of negligence. Learn what makes a vessel unseaworthy, proving unseaworthiness claims, and available damages.
Legal claims for workers injured in crane accidents on offshore platforms, drilling rigs, and supply vessels in the maritime industry.
Understanding legal claims for workers injured in offshore oil rig explosions, fires, and blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond.
The LHWCA provides workers compensation benefits to longshoremen, harbor workers, and certain maritime employees who do not qualify as Jones Act seamen. Coverage depends on where you work and your duties. Learn LHWCA eligibility, benefits, and claims against third parties.
Offshore workers face unique hazards and complex legal frameworks—Jones Act, LHWCA, OCSLA, and general maritime law may all apply depending on location and duties. Learn which law covers your offshore injury, available benefits, and pursuing claims against responsible parties.
How incompetent, violent, or unfit crew members can render a vessel unseaworthy and create liability for injuries to other maritime workers.
Maritime death claims follow unique rules under the Jones Act, Death on the High Seas Act, and general maritime law—with different damages depending on location and decedent status. Families must navigate multiple potential claims. Learn available death claims and compensation for families.
