Jones Act Lawyer

During a boat transfer, Ricci Anderson reached for a handrail to stop himself from falling as the boat he was aboard began to rock. According to the lawsuit filed, the motion involved in grabbing the handrail has left the seaman with serious arm injuries.
Harvey Gulf International Marine and Diamond Offshore Drilling have been named as […]

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David Dinnes is the former employee of many vessels during his 20 year career as a seaman. During those years, Dinnes says that he was exposed to benezene and many products that contained benezene, which he now claims is the cause of his development of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Dinnes has filed a Jones Act Lawsuit against 18 of […]

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A Jones Act lawsuit has been filed against American Commercial Barge Line after a former employee claims to have suffered serious injuries while working aboard the M/V Tom Frazier.
Michael Bent, the former employee, claims that when he was checking down the tow, the line he was working on parted and struck him with a great […]

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Crowley Marine Service Inc. is facing a Jones Act lawsuit filed by an employee who suffered a severe shoulder injury while on the job. William Travis, the Crowley Marine Service employee, claims that his painful shoulder injury was caused by the negligence of his employer.
While the lawsuit does not describe how the negligence led to […]

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A security guard working at Argosy’s Alton Belle Casino has filed a Jones Act lawsuit against the company. Doris Viviano, a former employee of Argosy, claims that she was injured on the job due to the employer’s inability to comply with Jones Act requirements. More specifically, she claims that she became very sick after injuring […]

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Osage Marine Services has recently been named as the defendant in a Jones Act lawsuit filed by a former employee of the Illinois River barge, M/V Miss Mary Ann. Tracy Fansheir, a deckhand on the M/V Miss Mary Anne, claims that he sustained back injuries while working on the barge in mid-January.
Fansheir claims that Osage […]

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A barge worker employed by H.B. Ventures was crushed between two pieces of heavy equipment earlier this month, and died of his injuries not long after. Kelly Patrick Bennett, died late Saturday night at Ochsner Medical Center West Bank. He had been working on a docked barge at the United Bulk Terminal when the accident […]

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A bill proposed by California state senator Joe Simitian would require that cruise ships sailing from California ports have a peace officer on board to oversee passenger safety and compliance with environmental regulations. The bill, spurred by several publicized cases of missing passengers and sexual assault in recent years, would give California the toughest cruise-industry […]

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Kevin Salsman and Elroy Boutte recently filed a personal injury suit in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas Beaumont Division after the boat they were working on crashed into a jetty earlier in January. The suit claims that the boat’s captain, who was named as John Doe in the suit, negligently steered the […]

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