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Personnel in the maritime industry must contend with a variety of hazards—it’s just part of their job. They often must perform their duties in the presence of heavy machinery, flammable materials, and other potential dangers, and often in severe weather conditions as well. Major injuries are hardly uncommon.
Fortunately, offshore and maritime workers who become injured while on duty have access to several options when it comes to financial compensation. Schechter, Shaffer & Harris, L.L.P. is the maritime law firm you can rely on for help with maintenance and cure, Jones Act claims, and related legal issues.
Maritime Dangers
Offshore and maritime personnel can become seriously injured in a number of ways. Common health conditions resulting from offshore accidents include but are not limited to the following:
- Back & spine injuries
- Burns
- Hypothermia
- Frostbite
- Compartment Syndrome
- Amputation
- Pleural (lung) disorders
- Brain damage
To ensure the best results in your efforts to obtain compensation for your injuries, it’s important to have experienced maritime personal injury attorneys on your side.
Maintenance and Cure
General maritime law has traditionally provided injured seamen with a measure of financial compensation. The most basic kind of compensation is called maintenance and cure. Maintenance consists of payments intended to permit the seamen to sustain their standard of living while they recuperate. Cure is compensation for the medical expenses incurred by their job-related injury or illness. These funds are available to seamen regardless of their level of responsibility for their condition, and they may qualify for additional compensation as well.
Offshore Cases
Depending on the circumstances surrounding the incident in question, maritime employees who are injured in connection with their duties may be eligible for a substantial financial settlement. Our maritime accident lawyers have decades of experience and represents workers injured in the New York region, with the full range of relevant personal injury law.
Our Areas of Specialty
Maritime personal injury law consists of various facets that tend to prove confusing to those who are not experienced admiralty lawyers. Our team handles a wide variety of maritime issues, including these:
Case Results
$17.5 Million
head injury
$4.5 Million
offshore explosion
$3 Million
back injury
$2.5 Million
tug injury
An Experienced Legal Team
As nationwide personal injury lawyers, we’ll go the extra mile to ensure that you get properly compensated for your pain and suffering. We’ve recovered millions in damages for our clients, who hail from all fifty states. Our team has taken on some of the biggest corporations in the U.S.
Contact Us
When you need a Jones Act attorney who has decades of experience with admiralty law, call Schechter, Shaffer & Harris, L.L.P., at 1-800-836-5830. We answer calls 24/7. Ask us about our free confidential case evaluation.
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