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Picking the incorrect maritime attorney may be like drowning in a tub bath of salt water.But salt water runs via my veins. Being born in Seattle, My first salt water task as a longshoreman and ILWU membership starting at age sixteen. This changed into lengthy before containerization and while longshoreman carried metallic hooks for grabbing packing containers, and the entire waterfront turned into managed by the ILWU. I walked wood traces throughout strikes and discovered what residing without a wage means.I beame a attorney after seeing what employer union busting gave the look of and how marine employers out-gunned and out lawyerd people in negotiations. I worked my way through law faculty, made regulation evaluate and become fortunate sufficient to paintings in brief with Senator Warren Magnuson, chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. When it became time to begin a non-public exercise I went returned to my saltwater roots and commenced through representing persons working on huge manufacturing facility trawler boats just because the Bering Sea bottom fish enterprise changed into starting. All of the fish organizations have been treating processors, under deck employees, and approximately every function besides inside the wheelhouse, as non-seaman unentitled to the benefits of Federal Law, Jones Act and General Maritime law. So, I added fit in District Court, Donna Wells v. Artic Alaska and gained a ruling, no matter their work reputation, a maritime worker contributing to the mission and feature of a vessel, which includes processors and so forth.are included with the aid of Fedderal regulation and to be treated as seamen.This ended in blessings to thousands of people who had little to no advantages for harm, except now and again people comp. Years later I added and received a category action on behalf of a few eight,000 Alaska people compensation people who have been certainly Federal seamen
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I am the founding associate of INJURY AT SEA, we most effective do maritime damage. I have for my part practiced maritime damage law for over forty three years. For me, its all about and best about supporting an man or woman. We aren't fits searching out the following huge brag.
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We boost all costs necessary to pursue your case so at no time are you paying something out of pocket. If your case requires bringing you to a courthouse or regulation office for felony proceedings those costs, which include air journey, resort stay, living fee are superior through us as properly. Same issue for clinical exams or remedy if further testing, a better scientific company, or greater state-of-the-art remedy is required.
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Injury At Sea - FOUNDING PARTNER
I FOUNDED INJURY AT SEA, STARTING 1982
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