Maritime Accident Attorneys in Corpus Christi

Have You Suffered an Offshore Accident or Maritime Injury?

Every year, offshore oil rig and gas platform workers, shrimpers, commercial fishermen, cruise ship seamen, tankermen, divers, barge workers, offshore utility workers, deckhands, and other maritime workers are seriously or fatally injured in maritime accidents.

Injuries from jack-up rig accidents, vessel collisions, explosions, falls, and equipment failures often require long-term medical care and the excessive medical expenses that go with it.

Obtaining full financial recovery and support for offshore injuries can be complicated.

Offshore injury claims are covered by maritime laws like the Jones Act and Longshoremen and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. Many personal injury and workers’ compensation rules don’t apply.

Maritime employers will offer only a small portion of your rightful maintenance and cure (financial recovery for maritime injuries). Offshore companies will try to deny any responsibility for your accident. Proving negligence gets tricky with potential investigative snags and aggressive offshore company defense tactics.

But it IS possible to obtain the maximum financial compensation for your offshore injury.

With an aggressive legal and investigative team and decades of experience in the intricacies of maritime law, our experienced lawyers are uniquely positioned to maximize financial recovery for injured maritime workers.

At Williams Attorneys, we continually succeed in obtaining full medical expenses, lost wages, and other substantial financial recovery for our clients. You don’t pay a penny unless we win your case!

We represent offshore workers along coastal Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, and across the Gulf of Mexico.

Contact usfor a free, confidential, no-obligation case consultation at (361) 866-5535.

What Financial Compensation Can Injured Maritime Workers Collect? 

Crew members injured or fatally wounded on offshore drilling rigs, platforms, semi-submersibles, fishing boats, tankers, cruise ships, tugs, oilers, derrick barges, or other maritime vessels are offered certain rights and protections under the Jones Act and federal maritime law.

These rights include the right to financial compensation for injuries obtained while working on an offshore vessel.

For one, injured seamen are automatically entitled to “maintenance and cure,” regardless of whose fault the accident was. Maintenance and cure covers all injury-related medical expenses, housing expenses, food costs, household utilities and other necessary maintenance expenses.

But this is rarely enough to put an injured maritime worker back in the financial position they were in before the injury, especially when physical or mental injuries prevent future employment in that same position, or an offshore worker’s death robs a family of much needed income and companionship.

Therefore, under federal maritime law and the Jones Act, injured offshore workers can also file a claim for:

To obtain full compensation for your offshore injury, it is crucial to retain an experienced Jones Act attorney whose maritime law insight, offshore investigative resources, and aggressive legal strategy can ensure you achieve success against even the most powerful company.

What Types of Offshore Injuries Qualify for Compensation?

Offshore job sites are some of the world’s most dangerous. Offshore workers frequently work long hours in unpredictable environments around massive, often poorly maintained equipment.

When an accident does happen, it can take hours for an injured worker to be life flighted into an emergency hospital for proper medical care, giving relatively minor injuries ample opportunity to become much more serious.

Common commercial fishing injuries, deep-water drilling accidents, oil rig explosions, jack-up rig mishaps, platform accidents, cruise ship injuries, and other offshore disasters are caused by:

Unfortunately, negligence is almost always a major factor in offshore accidents and worker injuries.