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Signing a Release for Maritime Injuries?

Learn about your legal rights under maritime law before signing an injury release or settlement agreement. Contact Beard Stacey & Jacobsen, LLP at 1-866-974-9633

Know your rights before you sign a maritime release or settlement agreement for personal injuries. Don't sign a release until you have had your rights fully explained to you by an experienced maritime personal injury lawyer. Beard Stacey & Jacbosen, LLP offers free initial legal consultations. It costs you nothing to call them to talk about your claim.

Do you have a permanent injury from a maritime accident that will cause you pain and suffering and lost wages in the future? Why do you think the insurance company, boat owner, or your employer want you to sign a release? The answer is easy, it is to foreclose you from reopening your claim and asking for more money in the future. If you haven't consulted with an experienced maritime lawyer to evaluate your claim, you may be giving up valuable rights, and not being paid full and fair compensation for your injury claim.

It takes years of experience, knowledge about maritime law, and handling of hundreds of cases, to properly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a maritime injury claim. Don't guess about your rights. Get the information you need to make a decision about what is fair compensation for your injury. Working to obtain fair compensation for pain and suffering, future lost wages, retraining costs, and medical expenses, is what the lawyers at Beard Stacey & Jacobsen, LLP do for their clients every day. They have handled thousands of maritime injury cases, recovering millions of dollars in compensation for their clients. They have handled over 50 maritime injury death cases. Put their experience to work for you before you agree to sign a settlement agreement.

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Verdicts & Settlements
  • FAILURE TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE AND CURE - $1.6 million

  • An engineer aboard an Alaska fish processor injured his back while lifting a heavy sheet of metal.  The employer denied his maintenance and cure despite medical opinions recommending further treatment.

  • FISH PROCESSOR INJURY CLAIM - $3.35 million

  • Jones Act Negligence Claim

  • TRAWL WINCH INJURY CLAIM - $1.8 million

  • Jones Act claim for shoulder and arm injury caused by negligent operation and maintenance of a trawl winch.

  • FISH PROCESSOR WRONGFUL DEATH - $1.5 million

  • Fishing vessel sinking in Alaska

  • DECKHAND INJURY - $2.35 million

  • Jones Act Verdict For Deckhand Crushed Foot Vessel found unseaworthy and negligent when moving deck hatch rolled over Deckhand's foot on a clam boat.

  • DECKHAND EXPLOSION INJURY - $4 Million

  • Ship Board Explosion Injures Deckhand Circulating seawater compressor explosion results in fisherman suffering severe burns.

  • BRAIN INJURY - $3.5 Million

  • Deckhand on tug boat injured by defective equipment.

  • WRONGFUL DEATH - $2,900,000

  • Oil response worker died when negligently installed anchor cable unspooled from winch.

  • ARM INJURY - $2,600,000

  • Fish Processor improperly trained in cleaning surimi auger, arm pulled into running auger.

more Verdicts & Settlements


  • FAILURE TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE AND CURE - $1.6 million

  • An engineer aboard an Alaska fish processor injured his back while lifting a heavy sheet of metal. The employer denied his maintenance and cure despite medical opinions recommending further treatment.

  • FISH PROCESSOR INJURY CLAIM - $3.35 million

  • Jones Act Negligence Claim

  • TRAWL WINCH INJURY CLAIM - $1.8 million

  • Jones Act claim for shoulder and arm injury caused by negligent operation and maintenance of a trawl winch.

  • FISH PROCESSOR WRONGFUL DEATH - $1.5 million

  • Fishing vessel sinking in Alaska

  • DECKHAND INJURY - $2.35 million

  • Jones Act Verdict For Deckhand Crushed Foot Vessel found unseaworthy and negligent when moving deck hatch rolled over Deckhand's foot on a clam boat.

  • DECKHAND EXPLOSION INJURY - $4 Million

  • Ship Board Explosion Injures Deckhand Circulating seawater compressor explosion results in fisherman suffering severe burns.

  • BRAIN INJURY - $3.5 Million

  • Deckhand on tug boat injured by defective equipment.

  • WRONGFUL DEATH - $2,900,000

  • Oil response worker died when negligently installed anchor cable unspooled from winch.

  • ARM INJURY - $2,600,000

  • Fish Processor improperly trained in cleaning surimi auger, arm pulled into running auger.

more Verdicts & Settlements


  • FAILURE TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE AND CURE - $1.6 million

  • An engineer aboard an Alaska fish processor injured his back while lifting a heavy sheet of metal. The employer denied his maintenance and cure despite medical opinions recommending further treatment.

  • FISH PROCESSOR INJURY CLAIM - $3.35 million

  • Jones Act Negligence Claim

  • TRAWL WINCH INJURY CLAIM - $1.8 million

  • Jones Act claim for shoulder and arm injury caused by negligent operation and maintenance of a trawl winch.

  • FISH PROCESSOR WRONGFUL DEATH - $1.5 million

  • Fishing vessel sinking in Alaska

  • DECKHAND INJURY - $2.35 million

  • Jones Act Verdict For Deckhand Crushed Foot Vessel found unseaworthy and negligent when moving deck hatch rolled over Deckhand's foot on a clam boat.

  • DECKHAND EXPLOSION INJURY - $4 Million

  • Ship Board Explosion Injures Deckhand Circulating seawater compressor explosion results in fisherman suffering severe burns.

  • BRAIN INJURY - $3.5 Million

  • Deckhand on tug boat injured by defective equipment.

  • WRONGFUL DEATH - $2,900,000

  • Oil response worker died when negligently installed anchor cable unspooled from winch.

  • ARM INJURY - $2,600,000

  • Fish Processor improperly trained in cleaning surimi auger, arm pulled into running auger.

more Verdicts & Settlements


  • FAILURE TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE AND CURE - $1.6 million

  • An engineer aboard an Alaska fish processor injured his back while lifting a heavy sheet of metal. The employer denied his maintenance and cure despite medical opinions recommending further treatment.

  • FISH PROCESSOR INJURY CLAIM - $3.35 million

  • Jones Act Negligence Claim

  • TRAWL WINCH INJURY CLAIM - $1.8 million

  • Jones Act claim for shoulder and arm injury caused by negligent operation and maintenance of a trawl winch.

  • FISH PROCESSOR WRONGFUL DEATH - $1.5 million

  • Fishing vessel sinking in Alaska

  • DECKHAND INJURY - $2.35 million

  • Jones Act Verdict For Deckhand Crushed Foot Vessel found unseaworthy and negligent when moving deck hatch rolled over Deckhand's foot on a clam boat.

  • DECKHAND EXPLOSION INJURY - $4 Million

  • Ship Board Explosion Injures Deckhand Circulating seawater compressor explosion results in fisherman suffering severe burns.

  • BRAIN INJURY - $3.5 Million

  • Deckhand on tug boat injured by defective equipment.

  • WRONGFUL DEATH - $2,900,000

  • Oil response worker died when negligently installed anchor cable unspooled from winch.

  • ARM INJURY - $2,600,000

  • Fish Processor improperly trained in cleaning surimi auger, arm pulled into running auger.

more Verdicts & Settlements

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