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Do I have a Jones Act case if I am injured due to working too long hours?


Jones Act Lawyer

We can help you with the insurance company. We help get you maintenance and cure/ medical treatment.

Call 619-234-2833 or 866-963-0540


We Help You Get Your Life Back

Our focus for over two decades has been to be there for our clients for the legal process and all their other needs. Our Jones Act injury lawyers are ready to help you start putting your life back together. We are ready to help you get your life back.


"If you are injured due to working long hours, you may have a case. Call us, we can help." Bill Turley

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We don't mean to suggest the only way someone can be a really good Jones Act lawyer is to have fantastic ratings, get great reviews, win prestigious lawyer awards, be asked to teach other lawyers at lawyer seminars and be elected to lead lawyer organizations. What these things do mean is that people that do know good lawyers from bad lawyers have chosen us for these honors. Let's make sure you understand. Not all lawyers are alike. Not all lawyers are honest. In fact, few lawyers are the "best lawyer" for you and your case. These awards, honors and ratings give you peace of mind that you hired the best lawyer for your Jones Act case.


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Do I have a Jones Act case if I am injured due to working too long hours?

Some industries, such as the fishing industry, require seaman to work long hours, days or even months at a time. If you are injured due to having to work long hours, you may have a case. Here, we break it down for you with Jones Act Attorney Straight Talk.


What you need to prove for your Jones Act Claim

A Jones Act claim has four elements:

(1) Your employer's duty to provide a safe work environment is to you - a seaman employee;

(2) Breach of that duty;

(3) Your employer's awareness of the unsafe condition; and

(4) A causal link, however slight, between the breach and your injury.

Your Jones Act employer owes a you a duty to provide a safe work environment. If your employer requires you to work long hours or long hours without breaks, it may be found to have created an unsafe work environment and caused your injury.

This is true even if it is the "industry standard" for employers to require 16-hour shifts, with no days off, for months at a time. Even if 16-hour shift is an industry standard, that does not establish a lack of negligence as a matter of law. A reasonable jury could conclude that requiring you to work a 16-hour shift is a breach of your employer's duty to provide a safe work environment. The standard for causation in Jones Act claims is very low, and requires only that the negligence be a cause, however slight, of your injury.


What you need to prove for your unseaworthiness claim

An unseaworthiness claim has four elements:

(1) Seaman status triggering the warranty of seaworthiness;

(2) Your injury arising from the condition of the ship or its crew;

(3) The unseaworthiness of that condition; and

(4) Proximate causation between the unseaworthy condition and your injury.


A lack of adequate crew is a basis for unseaworthiness. Requiring a ship's crew to work 16 hours a day, every day, for months on end can indicate that the ship is not adequately manned with crew to perform its duties in a seaworthy manner. Whether the length of shift and size of the crew are unseaworthy is decided by the jury.


But, do I have a case?

The law is not always black and white. The bottom line is that a jury will have to decide whether your employer's requiring to work long hours was a cause of your injury. Just because there is no Black Letter rule that says Jones Act employers are liable if you work long hours and are injured because of it, doesn't mean you don't have a case. To the contrary. All you really want is the chance to present your case to the jury. And that's enough. Because that qualifies as having a case. It is up to your Jones act Lawyer to marshal the evidence so that you prevail at trial or get your case successfully settled.


A State Wide Practice

Seaman from all over California ask us to represent them in their Jones Act case. We can help you too.


San Francisco Office

425 California St. 18th Floor
San Francisco, California, 94104
866-963-0540

Los Angeles Office:

3255 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1801
Los Angeles, California 90010
866-963-0540

San Diego Office:

625 Broadway, Suite 625
San Diego, California 92101
619-234-2833

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Our law firm is respected for the thoroughness of our work and for the results we achieve for Jones Act Seaman. Please contact us to learn whether we may be able to assist you with your Jones Act case.


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Our focus for over two decades has been to be there for our clients for the legal process and all their other needs. Our Jones Act injury lawyers are ready to help you start putting your life back together. We are ready to help.

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The Turley Law Firm
626 Broadway, Suite 625
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 234-2833
Fax: (619) 234-4048
Toll Free: 866-963-0540


The San Diego, California personal injury law firm of The Turley Law Firm serves clients across  Southern California area. We give you straight talk about your legal options. We have handled cases from San Diego to Imperial Beach to Oceanside to Escondido to El Cajon, everywhere in between, such as: Alpine, Camp Pendleton, Cardiff, Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado,  Del Mar, Eastlake, Encinitas, La Mesa, La Costa, La Jolla, Lakeside, Lemon Grove, Mission Bay, NAS San Diego, National City, Naval Station San Diego, North Island, North County, Pacific Beach, Point Loma, Port of San Diego, Poway, Ramona, Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Santa Fe, San Marcos, San Diego Harbor, Santee, Solana Beach, South Bay, Spring Valley, Vista.

We handle cases across California, including: Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Orange County, Imperial County, Los Angeles County, and Ventura County, Colorado River, Mexico, Cabo, Pacific Ocean and all the Oceans and waterways across California and the World.


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