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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 unleading 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 lawyeres represent workers in Port Everglades who have sustained injuries while loading and unloading of container ships, freighters, and tankers.  If you have been injured by Argon gas, call our longshore 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, Port Canaveral, Miami, Fort Myers, Pensacola, Miami, North Miami, 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, 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 while working at a port unloading or loading ships, repairing ships, or working on vessels or containerships, 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.

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. 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 Alabama at Port of Mobile and Port Decatur.  We represent Longshorement throughout the United States before the Department of Labor, especially District 6 in Jacksonville, Florida, which covers the Southeastern United States.

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.   You may also visit us at  http://www.admiraltyandmaritime.com/practice-areas/florida-longshore-harbor-workers/  and  http://www.cruisehipinjurylawfirm.com/   .