A.B. means Able Bodied. Or Able Bodied Seaman. Which is higher and more experienced that an

What is an A.B.? / What does "A.B" mean?

 

A: A.B.  means  Able Bodied. Or  Able Bodied Seaman. Which is higher and more experienced that an "ordinary seaman"

A.B. is a civilian rank for Seaman whom work on merchant ships. An AB is an unlicensed member of the deck department.

Four catagories of Able Seaman for United States Merchant Marine:

1. Able Seaman-Any Waters, Unlimited. Requires three years service on deck on vessels operating on the oceans or the Great Lakes.
2. Able Seaman-Limited. Requires 18 months service on deck in vessels of 100 gross tons or more which operate in a service not exclusively confined to the rivers and smaller inland lakes of the United States.
3. Able Seaman-Special. Requires 12 months service on deck on vessels operating on the oceans, or the navigable waters of the United States including the Great Lakes.
4. Able Seaman-Special (OSV). Requires six months service on deck on vessels operating on the oceans, or the navigable waters of the United States including the Great Lakes.


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California Allows Seaman To FIle Jones Act Cases In California - Even If You Were Injured or Were Working In another State!
Many of the big shipping companies and fishing companies regularly recruit workers from California to work on their vessels. When they get seriously hurt, they get shipped home.


When the injury is serious, what should you do?

We recommend they call us. Many times we can bring claims for these seaman in California State Court. Flying back and forth from distant ports can really add up the costs of a lawsuit. When you bring your case in California State Court, you in effect, level the playing field between you and the insurance company.

The last thing the insurance company wants you to do is file your claim in California State Court. By doing so, you are taking away the shipping companies or fish processing companies big advantage - - making you file a claim in their state.

Thus, if you are from California and you were injured in another State or working for a shipping company or fish procession company from another state - - you should call us. If you call an out of state attorney they are most likely going to file your claim in their state.

If you call us, we are going to try to keep your case here in California. In your home court - not the insurance companies home court. Call us first.


 Forum Selection Clauses

At times, lawsuits and claims must be filed where the incident occurred or, for example, pursuant to a forum selection clause, in cities far removed from where the claimant resides. Thus, we accept cases with clients that live all over America and the world. The Turley Law Firm has a world-wide practice. 

Somtimes seaman may get injured in another State and there is a forum selction clause which states the lawsuit must be filed in California.  In these instances, we may represent Seaman and crewmembers that come from states and/or ports very distant from California.

Based upon the foregoing California venue rules and  forum selection clauses, we accept cases for injured Seaman that are injured all over America, including:

Alabama, Montgomery, AL, Birmingham, Alaska, Juneau, AK, Anchorage, Kodiak, Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado River, Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, California, Sacramento, CA, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, Port Hueneme, Oceanside, Yuba City, Oxnard, Santa Barbara, Colorado, Denver, CO, Connecticut, Hartford, CT, Delaware, Dover, DE, Florida, Tallahassee, FL, Miami, Jacksonville, Orlando, Georgia, Atlanta, GA, Savanna , Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, Pearl Harbor, Idaho, Boise, ID, Illinois, Springfield, IL, Chicago, Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Kansas, Topeka, KS, Kentucky, Frankfort, KY, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, New Orleans, Maine, Augusta, ME, Portland, Maryland, Annapolis, MD, Baltimore, Massachusetts, Boston, MA, Quincy, Michigan, Lansing, MI, Detroit, Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Pascagoula, Gulfport, Missouri, Jefferson City, MO, Saint Louis, St. Louis, Montana, Helena, MT, Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Nevada, Carson City, NV, New Hampshire, Concord, NH, New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, Newark, Jersey City, New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, New York, Albany, NY, New York City, Buffalo, Erie, Rochester, North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, Wilmington, North Dakota, Bismarck, ND, Ohio, Columbus, OH, Toledo, Akron, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, Oregon, Salem, OR, Portland, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Providence, RI, Newport, South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Charleston, South Dakota, Pierre, SD, Tennessee, Nashville, TN, Memphis, Texas, Austin, TX, Houston, Dallas, Galveston, Corpus Christi, Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Vermont, Montpelier, VT, Virginia, Richmond, VA, Norfolk, Va Beach, Virginia Beach, Washington, Olympia, Seattle, West Virginia, Charleston, WV, Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Milwaukee, Wyoming, Cheyenne, WY.

Disclaimer:  We are California lawyers. We can not and do not hold ourselves out as being  attorneys from any other State.  We do handle cases for Seaman that are filed in other States. In those instances we associate in local counsel and we can practice in most states as pro hoc vice counsel.   As stated above,  we  provide legal representation  for California residents that are injured all over the United States and the World.




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