A California Jones Act Lawyer gives you honest answers...Bill Turley teaches lawyers Jones Act Law. Here, Bill talks about "How are you going to support your family if you are unable to return to work aboard ship?

Are you an injured Jones Act Seaman? How are you going to support your family if you are unable to return to work aboard ship? A California Jones Act Lawyer gives you honest answers

California Jones Act Lawyer Bill Turley has been lecturing, teaching and writing about Jones Act cases for over 15 years. Bill teaches lawyers how to win Jones Act cases. He is a "Proctor in Admiralty." FInd out why when California seaman are seriously injured and can not return to work - they turn to Bill.

California Maritime lawyer Bill Turley lays out some of the hard truths about seaman injuries in California.

First, the reason why you are entitled to Jones Act benefits is because you work at the "mercy of the vessel." Most workers in America can not sue their employer. If they are injured at work their "exclusive remedy" against their employer is usually extremely unfair workers compensation benefits. Unlike a worker that works at Walmart, if you (a seaman) encounter something unsafe at work, you can't just quit and go home. Instead, maritime law imposes the duty on you to work to complete your voyage or mission. Because of this, the law allows you to sue your employer.

After you are injured aboard a vessel or in the service of the vessel your first concern must be your health, safety and medical treatment. Nothing is more important than your health and safety. Often times this means emergency medical treatment.

When you are injured in the service of the vessel, or during a voyage, your Jones Act employer has an obligation to provide you medical treatment until you reach maximum medical improvement. This is called "cure." It is very important that you chose a treating physician that is not a "company doctor."

Generally we provide our client with a list of physicians and surgeons in their area that they are free to conduct research and/or contact for availability. Your choice of physician is yours. We just help you narrow the list to the very best doctors in their respective fields. We know, at the end of the day, nothing is more important than you making the best medical recovery possible.

Of huge concern is your "maintenance rate." That is the daily rate of how much you will be paid while you are unfit for duty and not yet having reached "maximum medical improvement”. This is often a battle. We are often times able to negotiate a higher daily maintenance rate. It is usually best to try and address this issue before maintenance is initially paid. However, we have been successful in raising maintenance rates at much later times also.

The last thing you want to do is for you and your family to "die on the vine". Meaning, you receive so little in maintenance that they suffer severe economic hardship. Oftentimes there are other avenues for temporary monies. We understand that all of these avenues must be explored for you and your family's economic survival.

After you have been released from treatment your attention can turn to your potential California Jones Act negligence case and/or California unseaworthiness case. Your lawyer should have been addressing these "liability" issues while you were treating for your injuries.

Oftentimes in vessel accidents it is a "race to the evidence". Meaning, insurance company investigators are probably working right now to get the witnesses to your accident to say things that are favorable to the company. These insurance investigators are pros at asking leading questions with double meanings that will be used against you later in court. The quicker your lawyer contacts the witnesses, the better these insurance company tricks can be nipped in the bud.

We handle cases for Jones Act Seaman whom are injured or killed in every navigable waterway in California. From Crescent City to San Francisco Bay to Oakland to Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara, to the offshore oil fields to Los Angeles Harbor to Long Beach to San Pedro to Newport Harbor to Dana Point Harbor to Oceanside Harbor, to San Diego Bay to the Colorado River, to Stockton to Sacramento to Yuba City to Lake Tahoe.

You need a California seaman lawyer or a California seaman attorney. We don't try and suggest we are the only good honest Jones Act Lawyers in California. We are suggesting is if you are seriously injured you need a good honest California Jones Act Lawyer.



The Turley Law Firm Lawyers accept cases in the following locations in California: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Long Beach, Sacramento, Oakland, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Bakersfield, Riverside, Stockton, Chula Vista, Fremont, Irvine, Modesto, Glendale, San Bernardino, Huntington Beach, Oxnard, Fontana, Moreno Valley, Oceanside, Rancho Cucamonga, Santa Clarita, Garden Grove, Ontario, Pomona, Santa Rosa, Salinas, Palmdale, Hayward, Pasadena, Torrance, Corona, Lancaster, Catalina Island, Bodega Bay, Bethel Island, Half Moon Bay, Eureka, Avalon,  Escondido, Alameda, Orange, Elk Grove, Sunnyvale, Fullerton, Thousand Oaks, El Monte, Simi Valley, Concord, Visalia, Vallejo, Ventura, Ventura Harbor, Marina del Ray, Morro Bay, Inglewood, Santa Clara, Pacific Ocean,  Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach , Port of San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Channel, San Clemente Island,  San Joaquin River, San Francisco Harbor, San Francisco Bay, Stockton, Port of Stockton, Port of Sacramento, Port San Luis, California Delta, Lake Tahoe, Colorado River, Port of San Diego, Sausalito, Santa Cruz, San Pedro,  San Diego Harbor, Stockton, Oceanside Harbor, Catalina Island, Dan Point, Newport Harbor, Ventura Harbor, Port Hueneme, Vallejo, Crescent City, Yuba City, Wilmington, and the Channel Islands, and the navigable waterways of the the United States and the navigable waters of California.

The Turley Law Firm handles all type of boat and ship accidents and we are boat accident lawyers, including Jones Act lawyers, unseaworthiness lawyers, boat negligence lawyers, maintenance and cure lawyers,  cruise ship lawyers, recreational boating lawyers, boat accident lawyers, ship accident lawyer, boat collision lawyer, ship collision lawyer, barge accident lawyer, barge lawyer, derrick attonrey, floating work platform lawyer,  PWC accident lawyer, personal watercraft accident lawyer, sailboat accident lawyer, water ski accident lawyer, sailing accident lawyer,  tanker lawyer, offshore lawyer,  and river accident lawyers.

 

 

 

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