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What Happens When a Tugboat Sinks?
Maritime shipping is a key industry, especially along the East Coast. Tugboats play an essential role in the industry, and ...
What Can Make a Barge Capsize?
Working on a barge can be extremely dangerous as the boat travels through shallower inland waterways. These waterways are fraught ...
How Do Dredging Accidents Occur?
Since the beginning of civilization, cities have relied on rivers and waterways to travel and transport goods. Natural processes like ...
How Injured Seamen Receive Compensation From The Jones Act
Working on a barge or a rig can be dangerous, as the risk of maritime accidents is higher than most ...
Maritime Accidents on International Waters
Currently, 5,000 seamen are employed in the United States, according to Zippia. These individuals face various potentially dangerous situations in ...
What To Do After a Boating Accident
Boating accidents are an entirely different entity than car accidents because of the likelihood of personal injury, damage to the ...
Do I Need a Maritime Lawyer for a Boating Accident?
The laws and restrictions in a personal injury case tend to change when an accident occurs in a body of ...
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act
The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act is a federal law that provides medical and other benefits to longshoremen, harbor ...
How To Get Compensation for Wrongful Death at Sea
An unfortunate factor of maritime work is that death is a real possibility. And every year, many of those deaths ...