Hurt while working on a tugboat, barge, rig, dock, or another vessel? Is your case worth filing a claim? Would the compensation be worth the legal and court fees?
Besides financial costs, there are many different challenges and obstacles you may face in your case. If you’ve been injured at sea and need to open a Jones Act case, an attorney will discuss with you the main factors that are calculated to determine the value of your claim including the following:
Medical Expenses
Your lawyer will obtain all of your medical invoices and receipts to total up your medical costs to date. If your injuries will require lifelong care, an expert may be called upon to calculate estimated future health care costs.
Lost Wages and Fringe Benefits
You are allowed to collect damages to account for past and future wages that are lost as a direct result of your offshore injury, but you’ll need an expert to forecast this. It could include the pay raises you would have received had you continued to work. Fringe benefits, including meals at sea, insurance benefits, health insurance and disability coverage, may reach a significant total.
Pain and Suffering
Compensation can vary greatly depending on your injuries, but damages for pain and suffering hinge on being able to prove your current and future likelihood for physical and mental anguish.
When you’re evaluating the value of your Jones Act case, there are many individual items to consider when you think about medical costs, lost wages and benefits, and pain and suffering.
To assess the full value of your claim, the following are just a few individual items that may be assigned a dollar value: rehabilitation costs; prosthetics costs; medication costs; re-training expenses; lost household help (child care, meals, cleaning, etc.); disfigurement; and loss of quality of life.
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At The Young Firm, our maritime and admiralty attorneys are dedicated to providing superior legal counsel to clients injured as a result of another party’s reckless, careless, or negligent conduct. We meticulously prepare each case and are committed to protecting the rights of the catastrophically injured. For more than 30 years, our attorneys have been focusing on maritime and Jones Act law.
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