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After injuries resulting from boat accidents occur, several different processes begin. You are trying to recover from your injury, but meanwhile, your employer and your employer's insurance company are launching a full-scale maritime accident investigation in an attempt to spend as little money as possible on your injury. Here are a few more ways companies have tried to discredit injury claims, accident or emotional distress lawsuits, and other maritime incidents.
3. Insisting that you be treated by the company doctor. Maritime law pertaining to boat accidents or other job-specific injuries is extremely clear: You have the right to be treated by any physician that you select. You do not have to use the company doctor, and, in fact, it's likely that you should not. These doctors may "encourage" you to return to work as quickly as possible.
4. Refusing to let you use your own physician. This is similar to item number 3 in our list. Your company may tell you that you must use the company-selected physician from the start. It is very important that you don't do this because once that doctor says that you are released to return to full duty, your company will use that leverage to deny paying your future medical costs or deny allowing you to see your own doctor. Choose a doctor who you trust and who you have selected.
5. Your company will do everything it can to force you to make a contradictory statement or to misquote yourself. If you "misstate" something, the insurance company will try to use that misstatement against you, no matter how small or accidental the slip might have been.
For instance, if you say in a recorded statement that you had never been seriously injured before, but years prior you had suffered an injury from which you fully recovered - believe it or not - the insurance company will attempt to ruin your case entirely based on that one slip.
For this reason and others, you should never give recorded statements and always speak with your attorney before signing or saying anything in a maritime accident investigation.
Contact a Maritime Accident Investigation Lawyer
The Jones Act provides you with certain protections your employer may not want you to know about. An attorney from The Young Firm in New Orleans, Louisiana, can help you if you have suffered injuries from boat accidents, an offshore accident or other 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. We have handled hundreds of injury and emotional distress lawsuits and claims. Order our free Maritime Injury Law guide and/or our guide to what to do when you are injured offshore 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 us today for a FREE case evaluation - call 1-504-680-4100 or toll-free at 1-866-938-6113.
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