Drilling Companies Working Overseas With American Employees

We recently posted an article and commentary addressing the increasing trend of drilling companies to send rigs overseas with American employees working aboard them. Our office has personally handled several cases involving American workers injured while working overseas on oil rigs. One of the challenges can be obtaining "jurisdiction" over the correct company since many of these drilling companies have foreign entities which technically employ the American worker. You can read more about this significant issue by clicking the link above.