Perhaps you or a loved one is employed as a sailor, seaman, maritime worker, marine worker or offshore worker, and perhaps such work on water has led to an accident injury. If so, it’s vital that you engage a maritime attorney or Jones Act lawyer to help you get the financial compensation you deserve — and to which you are legally entitled. (more…)

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Rescuers have found seven of the 10 offshore oil workers who evacuated a liftboat in the southern Gulf of Mexico between Veracruz and Merida ahead of Tropical Storm Nate. One worker later died in a hospital, but the others are in stable condition.

Two bodies also were found, but they have not been identified. A search for the remaining missing men continued.

The 10 offshore workers used a small escape life raft to evacuate the liftboat, or jack-up rig, in the Bay of Campeche Thursday. Mexican state-run oil company Pemex and the Mexican navy began a search, which Sunday yielded the discovery of seven workers 51 miles from shore.

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Seamen on American waters perform difficult, physically taxing jobs which deserve respect. When they’re injured, such seamen have a special protection known as the Jones Act. Seamen also may seek financial recovery via Workers Compensation, or Workers Comp, but recovery through the Jones Act can be a far better strategy.

Indeed, settlements for injured seamen under the Jones Act can be much larger than sums paid under Workers Comp. Laws on the latter vary from state to state, but largely Workers Comp covers only disability payments, medical costs and lost wages for injured seamen. Often paid through an employer’s Workers Comp insurance policy, such payments are limited and are designed to help a seaman get back on his feet and then return to his job.

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