Thursday, March 11, 2010

Frequent Injuries


Serious Personal Injury Attorneys

Danger is part of the job description for commercial fisherman and other maritime workers. Accidents that result in serious personal injury and death are far too common.

For more than 25 years, the maritime law attorneys of Beard Stacey & Jacobsen, LLP have been representing injured fishermen, tub boat workers, maritime workers, and others injured at sea as well as the family members of those who died a wrongful death.

If you have suffered a serious personal injury at sea, please contact a maritime law attorney at Beard Stacey & Jacobsen today for a free consultation and case evaluation. We may be able to help you recover compensation for your injury, lost wages, pain and suffering, and more.

We have won money damages for clients who suffered maritime injury cases of all types, including:

We represent serious personal injury victims on a contingency basis. We pay all the up front costs and you will pay no attorney fees unless we win your case.

Don't trust your maritime injury claim to just any attorney. Contact a law firm with a long and successful record of representing people just like you: Beard Stacey & Jacobsen. We know the law, we know the industry, and we know how to get results for you.
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.

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