Breaking Down the Value of Your Maritime Claim

Medical Expenses

Your lawyer will obtain all of your medical invoices and receipts to total up your medical costs to date. If your injuries will require lifelong care, an expert may be called upon to calculate estimated future health care costs.

Lost Wages and Fringe Benefits

You are allowed to collect damages to account for past and future wages that are lost as a direct result of your offshore injury, but you’ll need an expert to forecast this. It could include the pay raises you would have received had you continued to work. Fringe benefits, including meals at sea, insurance benefits, health insurance and disability coverage, may reach a significant total.

Pain and Suffering

Compensation can vary greatly depending on your injuries, but damages for pain and suffering hinge on being able to prove your current and future likelihood for physical and mental anguish.

When you’re calculating the value of your Jones Act case, there are many individual items to consider when you think about medical costs, lost wages and benefits, and pain and suffering.