Seeking a Treating Physician after Offshore Accidents

Patient comfort can have a substantial impact on the effectiveness of treatment for a serious injury. As a maritime worker, you have the right to choose your own treating physicians after you've suffered injuries while working. When this right is denied, it's time you speak with a New Orleans injury lawyer.

Being treated by a physician you know and trust helps you avoid mistreatment or unfair tactics to discredit your work injury claim. It's common to feel nervous or anxious when seeing a new doctor, and your right to choose your own personal physician to evaluate and treat your injuries can help you avoid those feelings. This can result in better treatment and recovery when you're familiar with their practice and trust the doctor is doing the best for your well being.

Company physicians typically don't exemplify this great patient-doctor relationship. They usually don't know your history and can often gloss over details of your injuries when performing general treatment. Some serious types of maritime injury require specialists, which your company physician may be reluctant to provide.

An employee injured while working on an offshore oil rig where accidents can easily occur has the right to seek medical treatment from the doctor of his or her choice. If your employer blocks you from your right or tries to persuade you to see the company physician, a New Orleans injury lawyer can help. 

Contact a New Orleans Injury Lawyer 

The Jones Act law provides you with certain protections your employer may not want you to know about. A Jones Act attorney near Lafayette from The Young Firm in New Orleans, Louisiana can help you if you have suffered injury in offshore oil rig accidents or other accidents and injuries that fall under maritime law.

Though we are based in Louisiana, we are ready and able to help injured victims throughout the U.S. Order our free Maritime Injury Law guide and/or our guide to what to do when you are injured in offshore oil rig accidents to learn all about your rights as an injured worker.

When you are ready to get started with your Jones Act injury case, we urge you to contact our New Orleans injury lawyer team today for a FREE case evaluation - call 1-504-680-4100 or toll-free at 1-866-938-6113.