Need Help After a Marine Salvage or Towing Accident? Contact Us for a Free Consultation Marine salvage and towing are often high-risk operations for the crewmembers tasked with recovering stranded vessels and cargo. If not handled carefully, these operations can lead to various types of accidents, and these accidents can present risks for serious or fatal injuries. If you have been injured in a marine salvage or towing accident – or if you have lost a loved one in one of these accidents – you have clear legal rights under the United States’ maritime laws. These laws entitle injured maritime workers to financial compensation for job-related injuries, and they allow grieving families to recover just compensation for their loved ones’ untimely deaths. At the Willis Law Firm, we help maritime workers and families recover their losses after salvage and towing accidents. We handle maritime injury and wrongful death claims nationwide. Whether you were injured in a salvage accident in a river or harbor or you are grieving the loss of a loved one in a towing accident on the open ocean, we can use our decades of experience to fight for the compensation you and your family deserve. Marine Salvage Accident Claims Marine salvage operations can involve varying degrees of complexity. In some cases, a salvage company will simply need to dispatch a tug or crane barge to secure a stricken vessel and tow it to a port where it can be disassembled or repaired. In others, seamen will need […]
The Jones Act is a federal law that governs the liability of vessel operators and marine employers for work-related injuries or the death of an employee.