The no-fault seaman remedy of daily living allowance and reasonable medical care until maximum medical improvement.
If a dock, shipyard, or harbor injury has put you out of work, almost every dollar of your Longshore Act compensation traces back to a single number: your average weekly wage. Getting that number right is the difference between full benefits and quiet, long-term underpayment. In short: Under the LHWCA, your average weekly wage (AWW)…
If you are a seaman and you get hurt or sick in the service of your vessel, the law hands you something you do not have to prove fault to receive: a daily living allowance and full medical care, starting almost immediately. It is called maintenance and cure, it is one of the oldest rights…
After an oil rig accident, the question that keeps you up at night is usually a money question: what is this going to cost me, and what can I recover? There is no honest single number, but there is something better than a number. There is a framework that decides which law governs your claim,…
After a serious injury on a fishing boat, the first question is almost always about money: what is my case worth, and how will I provide for my family? The figures online swing from a few hundred thousand dollars to several million, and that spread is not noise. It reflects how much the value of…
Commercial fishing is the most dangerous job in America, and the law treats the people who do it accordingly. If you crew a fishing vessel and you are hurt, your rights are almost certainly far broader than a land-based worker’s, but only if you understand the status that unlocks them. In short: Almost all commercial…
If you crew a cruise ship and get hurt on the job, you may be told your contract sends you to arbitration in another country under another nation’s law. That is often true. It does not mean you have no rights. In short: Injured cruise ship crew keep real maritime rights, including maintenance and cure…
The decisions you make in the first three days after an offshore injury can shape your health, your benefits, and the entire strength of your claim. While you focus on getting treatment, your employer’s insurer is already building its file. In short: If you are injured offshore, do six things fast: get medical care, report…
If you are searching for the average Jones Act settlement, you have probably found numbers that disagree wildly, from a few hundred thousand dollars to eight figures. Both can be true, and that is exactly why an “average” is the wrong number to anchor to. What follows is the real reported data, by injury type,…
If you were hurt working on or around the water, one word decides almost everything about your case: whether the law counts you as a seaman. That single classification controls which statute protects you, who you can hold responsible, and how much your claim is worth. In short: You are a Jones Act seaman if…
Commercial fishing is the deadliest civilian occupation in the United States. NIOSH data shows that fishermen die on the job at roughly 29 to 40 times the rate of the average U.S. worker. If you have been hurt on a fishing vessel, or you have lost a family member at sea, here is how the…
