It takes significant trauma to damage the bones in your back. So, when injuries to the back and spine do occur, they can have life-altering consequences. For those working on or enjoying the water, sustaining fractured vertebrae may mean weeks or months spent recovering, unable to work or bring home income. Some who suffer spine injuries may even face a lifetime of permanent disability. Fractured vertebrae are very serious injuries. The severity combined with the pain this type of spinal injury causes is not only harmful to your wellbeing, but also damaging to your career and family.
With more than 60 years helping maritime workers nationwide, the maritime injury lawyer team at Latti Associates LLC knows how much the life of a fisherman, merchant seaman or longshoreman can be devastated by on or offshore work injuries
Our East Coast maritime law firm has experience handling many types of vertebra and vertebrae injury claims. In one case, we were able to gain our client a verdict of $2.1 million after he suffered a compression fracture to his thoracic vertebra, which left him unable to pursue his dreams of becoming a tanker captain. In another case, we recovered a more than $2 million settlement for a crew member (full amount of insurance policy and sale of scallop vessel) who suffered incomplete quadriplegia due to vertebra injuries.
We work to obtain the lost wages, pain and suffering as well as the mental anguish, physical disfigurement and medical costs as our clients and their families need to begin putting their lives back together. When serious injuries threaten your livelihood, you need serious legal representation who knows how to get results.
In maritime back injury cases, the vessel owner, operator or seaman’s employer may be at fault for a variety of reasons. In addition to negligence, the unseaworthiness of the vessel in question may have also played a role in causing or worsening the injury severity.
We can help determine who or what may be responsible for spinal injuries that happen on the water by investigating if any of the following factors were involved:
After an accident at sea, the insurance company will want blame you for your injury, or it may want to blame an act of God that was not within its control. When you hire a maritime injury lawyer at Latti Associates LLC, we will immediately begin studying the accident, taking photographs, getting weather reports and interviewing witnesses, allowing you to spend your time getting better while we work to protect your rights and to combat any wrongful blame placed on you.
Past cases our maritime attorneys handled involving spinal fractures include:
If you have fractured your vertebrae aboard a ship or boat, you want a maritime attorney with a record of successful verdicts and settlements working for you. The maritime law firm of Latti Associates LLC has been representing people injured on the water for half a century. Maritime law is our passion, and protecting passenger rights is all we do.
Our offices are located in Boston and New Bedford near the major East Coast fishing ports. We also represent clients nationwide, including boaters and maritime workers from or working in Gulf Coast and West Coast fishing ports. Contact our maritime trial lawyers today to schedule a free initial consultation.
