What Is The Daily Maintenance Rate In Alabama Jones Act Cases?
An offshore injury or deck catastrophe transforms a maritime worker’s reality in seconds. When an engine room explosion, a slip on an oily walkway, or a mechanical deck line failure occurs aboard a commercial vessel along the Alabama Gulf Coast, the physical pain is immediately compounded by financial panic. For deckhands, tug captains, commercial shrimpers, […]
Can My Employer Stop Maintenance and Cure Before I Reach MMI?
A severe injury aboard a commercial vessel creates immediate financial and physical vulnerability for an offshore worker. Deckhands, engineers, tug captains, and commercial fishermen operating throughout the Port of Mobile, Mobile Bay, and the Theodore Industrial Canal rely heavily on daily maintenance stipends to keep food on the table and cure payments to cover specialized […]
Is A Fixed Offshore Platform A Vessel Under Maritime Law?
The daily commute for thousands of hardworking men and women on the Alabama Gulf Coast does not involve highways or traffic lights. Instead, it involves boarding crew boats in Bayou La Batre or Dauphin Island and heading miles offshore into the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Working on an offshore structure is an […]