How can the Jones Act help maritime or offshore workers after accident injury?
If you’ve suffered an offshore accident or maritime injury, why should you engage a maritime attorney or offshore accident lawyer? Can’t you handle your case on your own? And won’t your employer help you? Certainly, you can try to handle your case on your own. And certainly, you can try trusting your employer to do the right thing for you and to act in your best interests. But such trust may be misplaced. The fact is, many maritime employers will act only in their own best interests after an employee is injured on the job. They realize that the more they try to help an injured worker, the more they may wind up paying for such injuries. At first, it may seem as if your employer is trying to help you. After all, your employer may offer to let you see a physician employed by a vessel or rig’s owner or company, and at no cost to you. But such a physician is likely to act in the best interests of your employer and may try to understate or downplay your injury. Indeed, you are better served by seeing your own physician who does not work for your employer. This and other decisions are vital immediately after a workplace accident injury on the job on a ship, vessel, boat, rig or floating offshore platform. And for help in making the right decisions — the best decisions — you need a maritime attorney or Jones Act lawyer to act in your behalf. Why? Because a Jones Act lawyer has the knowledge and experience to apply the longtime federal maritime law known as the Jones Act for your …
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