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Our maritime trial lawyers help injured Longshoremen nationwide. Our managing attorney, Howard Grossman, is both AV-Rated and a Florida Bar Board-Certified Workers Compensation Emeritus Specialist.  Our firm maintains offices in Boca Raton, Clewiston and Jacksonville, Florida and handles Longshore claims nationwide.

Our attorneys are experienced in the litigation of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) claims before the Department of Labor.  This Law provides for payment of compensation for disability or death of an employee resulting from an injury occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States, including any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way, marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel.

The term "employee" is defined as any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and any harbor worker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and shipbreaker. Coverage under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act requires both situs location, or situs, and status, but certain kinds of locations, such as physical presence on actual navigable waters, will fulfill the status requirement. The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is construed as reflecting the recognition by Congress that modern developments in cargo handling have resulted in a great deal of traditional longshoring work being moved from the holds of ships to shoreside loading areas in which containers of cargo are loaded and unloaded in much the same manner as the holds of ships so that coverage of the employees doing this work should be expanded to cover the realities of their employment.


Under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA), workers injured while handling containerized cargo or conventional, noncontainerized forms of cargo are engaged in maritime employment so as to be covered by the Act if they were engaged in intermediate steps of moving cargo between ship and land transportation. Employees injured while working in capacities directly supporting the loading and unloading of ships are within the maritime employment requirements of the Act, at least where there was some direct involvement with maritime activities. The Act is not intended to cover purely clerical workers or other workers employed in or adjacent to marine terminals whose duties do not constitute an integral part of the loading or unloading process or fall within some other traditionally maritime area.  The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act specifically mentions shipbuilding, ship repair, and shipbreaking as maritime employment so that the question becomes one of determining whether particular work comes within the meaning of these terms.

Working at a port or shipyard is dangerous.  If you are or know a longshoreman or harbor worker who has been injured in any of the following ways while working in ports or shipyards, our teams of maritime lawyers, paralegals, nurses and investigators can help:

  • Back Injuries
  • Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Neck Injuries
  • Shoulder Injuries
  • Catastrophic Injuries
  • Amputations
  • Crush Injuries
  • Chemical Injuries
  • Brain Injuries
  • Hearing and Vision Loss
  • Burns
  • Injuries from Repetitive Use
  • Aggravation of Previous Injuries
  • Wrongful or Accidental Death
For more information, please contact us by calling 1-877-733-5878, or by completing the form below.  Consultations with our maritime lawyers are always free.

TIMOTHY C. NIES, ESQ.

Grossman Attorneys at Law
Toll-free:  1-877-733-5878
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Our maritime and longshore and harborworkers compensation act lawyers are experienced in representing injured dock and harbor workers who were hurt while unloading ships, including container ships, throughout Broward and South Palm Beach County, including Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Cypress Creek, Coconut Creek, Margate and Parkland. Our LHWCA lawyers represent seriously injured port workers in Parkland, Fort Lauderdale, North Lauderdale, Weston, Davie, Pompano Beach, Hillsboro Beach, Cypress Creek and Sunrise, FL. Our attorneys are experienced in handling cases involving injuries or wrognful death resulting from handling of dangerous chemical and gases, such as Argon Gas. Companies that utilize Port Everglades include Florida Transportation Services. Our firm's boca raton personal injury site is bocaratonpersonalinjurylawfirm.  Our lawyeres represent workers in Port Everglades who have sustained injuries while loading and unloading of container ships, freighters, and tankers.  longshore law firms in jacksonville, fl. Our attorneys will complete for you the Department of Labor  OWCP Longshore and Defense Base Act forms

If you have been injured by Argon gas, call our longshore litigation lawyers today.  Our PI and longshore and harbor worker attorneys stand ready to assist all workers injured on Florida piers, wharfs and ports. Our Florida Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act Attorneys represent injured workers in Fort Lauderdale, Port Everglades, Jacksonville, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Port Canaveral, Miami, Fort Myers, Pensacola, Miami, North Miami, Sunrise, Miami Beach, Key Largo, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, Cocoa Beach, Orlando, and all of Florida. Our workers compensation and LHWCA lawyers represent employees injured at Port Everglades, and Port of Miami, Port Fernandina, Port of Tampa, Port of Jacksonville, Port of Pensacola, Port of Manatee, Port of St. Petersburg, Port of St. Joe, Port of Palm Beach and others. Pt. Our Pt. Everglades lawyers can help you if you are hurt.  If you have been injured building a ship or yacht, call our longshore lawyers. If you have been injured while working at a port unloading or loading ships, repairing ships, or working on vessels or container ships, call our lawyer Timothy Nies or attorney Howard Grossman for a free consultation. Our attorneys are experienced in handling cases involving back injuries, herniated disks, shoulder injuries, torn rotator cuffs, wrongful death, crushed and broken bones, forklift injuries, head injuries, knee injuries, torn meniscus, brain injuries, chemical injuries burns, leg injuries and all injuries.  Florida Transportation Services.  If you have been injured while working at a U.S. Port, and cannot return to your Longshore work, call our attorneys with offices in Jacksonville and Boca Raton for a free consultation to discss you petition for compensation before the Department of Labor.  Longshore law firm in miami, fl.  We help injured port workers and ship builders. Our longshore lawyers in FL are experienced in litigating claims before the DOL.   If you have been injured while working at a port or a shipyard, our workers compensation lawyers can help you.  We are an AV-rated Florida law firm.

We represent stevadore and crane operators in addition to other harborworkers and families who have sustained serious injuries while working at U.S. ports, including bone fractures, head injuries, spinal injuries, repetitive trauma injuries, mesothelioma, asbestosis, hearing loss, brain injuries, herniated disks, torn rotator cuffs, and other injuries from falling object, defective equipment, such as forklists, and more..  Our admiralty and maritime law firm litigates Longshore cases in Miami, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Duval, Collier, Brevard, Miami-Dade, and all Florida counties. Our lawyers speak Spanish and Portuguese. Employees that are covered by the statute include those who load and unload various ships. The statute also covers individuals who construct, repair, maintain and alter ships, so long as the work is being done on the waterfront. Certain workers engaged in construction along waterways are covered as well as employees on oil rigs. Our attorneys represent longshoremen in Jacksonville, Miami, fort Lauderdale, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina.  Our attorneys are skilled at making sure longshoremen receive the compensation they deserve that that their average weekly wage (AWW) is calculated correctly.  longshore law firms in fort lauderdale. The longshore attorneys at our Florida firm help longshoremen in Florida, including Port of jacksonville, Port of Miamia nd Port Everglades, as well as in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama.  We litigate longshore cases at the department of labor.

Under the Defense Base Act, the Longshore system is also used to provide benefits for civilian workers on a military base. Only civilians in the employment of a private contractor are covered by this act. The Longshore and Harborworkers Act states that 
“The employer shall furnish such medical, surgical, and other attendance or treatment, nurse and hospital service, medicine, crutches, and apparatus, for such period as the nature of the injury or process of recovery requires.” However, the charges for medical treatment must be both reasonable and necessary for the Employer to be responsible for payment. Mileage reimbursement to and from the doctor is also recoverable directly to the injured worker under the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act. The decision to seek legal representation often involves the cost/benefit issue of having a lawyer involved with dispute resolution. Unlike most workers compensation statutes, the Longshore  and Harbor Workers' Act allows the attorney who successfully prosecutes a claim on behalf of an injured harbor worker, stevadore, etc. to assess attorney fees and costs against the Employer, in addition to the benefits owed to the injured worker. Lawyers who represent injured workers under the Longshore and Harborworkers Act do not claim a percentage of the benefits paid to their clients.  Our attorneys are experienced in representing Longshoremen in claims throughout District 6 and all districts in the United States.  Our lawyers represent clients injured at Port Everglades, Port of Palm Beach, Port of Miami, Port of Jacksonville, Port of Apalachicola, Jaxport cruise Terminal, Port of Jacksonville, Jaxport, Port of Palm Beach, Pt. St. Joe, Port of Tampa, Port Manatee, as well as at Port Savannah and Port Brunswick in Georgia.  Our maritime attorneys represent Longshoremen and other harbor workers in Louisiana at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, Port of New Orleans, and Port of South Louisiana. Our Longshore lawyers help Longshoremen, stevadores, dockers, crane operators, mechanics and other harbor workers in Florida, Georgia, Alabama at Port of Mobile and Port Decatur.  Department of labor longshore lawyers.

We represent Longshoremen throughout the United States before the Department of Labor, especially District 6 in Jacksonville, Florida, which covers the Southeastern United States. Our admiralty and maritime law firm represents shipbuilders, shipfitters, mechanics, stevedores and all other workers at ports and harbors in the United States.  Longshore attorney in Miami, FL. Longshore litigation specialists. Our workers comp lawyers help longshoremen in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Sunrise, Naples, Port Canaveral, St. Augustine, Orlando, and Jacksonville, FL.

We have represented dock workers, stevedores, platform workers, ship builders, ship repair workers, and various other longshoremen across the country. We understand that injuries can result in substantial physical, emotional, mental and financial anguish. Our admiralty and maritime lawyers are committed to helping relieve some of your pain by helping you recover monetary damages. We take every step necessary to help you recover compensation-from filing the initial claim to asserting your rights through litigation and negotiation. It is important to note that Longshore benefits do not prohibit you from filing a lawsuit against a third party whose negligence may have contributed to your injuries. longshore lawyers in jacksonville, FL.   For more information on our Boca Raton Florida Law firm, visit grossmanattorneys.com.

Two unions within the AFL-CIO represent longshoremen in the United States: The International Longshoremen's Association, which represents longshoremen on the East Coast, on the Great Lakes and connected waterways along the Gulf of Mexico, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents longshorement, stevadores and dockers along the West Coast, in Hawaii and Alaska. Florida Longshore law firm in Tampa, FL.   Our attorneys litigate
defense base act claims and cruise ship injury claims.  For more information about our Longshore practice, call our maritime attorneys today for a free consultation.