If your Jones Act employer fails to pay maintenance and cure benefits to you under general maritime law, and this failure is determined to have been willful and arbitrary, then the jury or judge is allowed to award you punitive damages for such failure.

Punitive Damages Are Available for Failure to Pay Maintenance and Cure

Punitive Damages Recoverable For Employer's Arbitrary Failure To Pay Maintenance and Cure Benefits

The United States Supreme Court recently made it clear the Maritime Law allows an injured seaman to seek punitive damages if his employer is willful and arbitrary in its failure to pay maintenance or cure benefits to the seaman. This is a long overdue remedy that should finally allow injured seaman to get needed medical treatment. Before the Court made this ruling, it was generally accepted by the Federal Appeal Courts that punitive damages were not available for failure to pay maintenance and cure benefits.

Click here to read the full article and the case that has finally leveled the playing field for injured Jones Act seaman.




Contact the Louisiana Maritime Lawyers at The Young Firm if you have any questions at all regarding your rights!  We have been helping injured Louisiana Jones Act and maritime workers for years.  Your case is about more than your injury; your case is about your future.  
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