Cruise Ship accident and Injuries
Cruise Ship Injury/ Hurt and accident Lawyers. Maritime Personal Injury Attorney represent those injured on cruise ships; both passengers as well as crew members/seaman. Cruise ship accidents can include assault by crew members or other passengers, sexual battery, food poisoning,and slip/trip and falls.
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Are you are seeking a personal injury lawyer because you have injuries you received on a ship?
1. Where you a passenger or crewmember/seamen at the time of you incident/injury/accident/illness?
2. Was the ship/vessel/boat on land or at sea at the time of your incident/injury/accident/illness?
3. Did your incident/injury/accident/illness occur within one year (if passenger) or three years (if crewmember/seamen)?
The answer to these questions will determine if you may have a claim against a cruise line for injuries. Please feel free to contact maritime personal injury attorney P. Sotolongo, for further information concerning your legal rights, available remedies or entitlement to damages.
Injured seamen, know your legal rights. Ask a lawyer.
Maritime/admiralty law is one of the oldest bodies of law in the world. If you are a seaman and was injured while working, you can bring a claim for damages. No matter what country your from, whatever your position, you can bring a claim for your injury or injuries in the United States.
Damages for injured seamen:
Seamen injured as a result of their employers negligence are entitled to compensation for pain and suffering, lost wages and other damages, including attorneys’ fees and punitive damages (if the employers conduct is deemed to be willful/capricious). Seamen are also entitled to recover damages for aggravation of a medical condition as a result of the employers failure to provide prompt, proper and adequate medical treatment; or for failure to provide maintenance and cure.
The employers negligence may be in failing to provide a safe workplace or in failing to provide prompt, proper and adequate medical treatment to an injured or ill seamen.
U.S Maritime Law also provides damages for injuries or death caused by a ship/vessel that is unseaworthy - meaning the vessel was not "reasonably fit" for the intended use which caused or contributed to an injury.
You have the right to be compensated for your injury. Contact one of our lawyers immediately and protect your legal rights.
Maintenance and cure and unearned wages:
Another common remedy available to injured/ hurt or ill seamen/crewmembers today include maintenance and cure, in addition to transportation and unearned wages. Seamen/crewmembers are entitled to receive maintenance and cure regardless of fault or negligence.
Maintenance is money paid to the seamen by the employer while recovering from an injury or illness until maximum medical cure is reached.
Cure is money paid for medical treatment by the employer to the medical providers on behalf of the injured or ill seamen/crewmember until maximum medical cure is reached.
Unearned wages are those wages the seamen did not earn because of injury or illness, which the employer pays up to the time of the end of the contract, unless otherwise stated in the contract with a particular employer.
The Jones Act and General Maritime Law:
The Jones act is a federal statute passed in 1920 to define the legal obligations of a Maritime employer and the applicable law for seamen/crewmembers working on a ship/vessel.
The law helps insure that injured seamen were provided for if they were injured or became ill during the course of their employment. Before 1920, seamen relied on Maritime Law to bring claims against their employers based on common laws that were adopted in ancient times – some of those ancient laws were incorporated into the U.S. law.
Now, employers must provide all crewmembers with a safe place to work and with prompt, proper and adequate medical treatment. Failure of an employer to provide you, a seamen, with a safe workplace, or with prompt, proper and adequate medical treatment, may entitle you to recover damages.
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