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Who Will Pay My Medical Bills after a Gulf of Mexico Commercial Diving Injury?
Are your maintenance benefits payable? Do you have to pay taxes on your maintenance payments?
Go to a company doctor for you cure treatment after maritime injury? Read reasons why this may lose your Jones Act claim here.
Do you lose your maintenance and cure if you hire an attorney or lawyer? Not according to the law- learn more here.
Punitive damages for your company failing to pay maintenance and cure--learn when, why and how you can get them.

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.