Maritime Law Overview

Shipping accident injury attorneys serving Alaska, Washington, and Oregon

At Beard Stacey Trueb & Jacobsen, LLP, we provide a strong voice for people who make their living on fishing boats and merchant marine vessels. Our attorneys work exclusively in matters of maritime federal law. We serve seamen and their families in claims involving major vessel sinkings, onboard injuries, and preventable fatalities at sea.

All maritime workers - All vessels

To discuss a shipping accident injury claim with an experienced lawyer, contact our maritime injury law firm in Seattle or Anchorage. We handle Jones Act lawsuits and Admiralty law claims in the following areas:

• Maritime wrongful death – drownings and other fatal accidents at sea
• Vessel sinkings – maritime disaster claims associated with the loss of small and large boats; capsized vessels
• Commercial fishing injuries – baiting accidents, hypothermia, drowning, and other injuries sustained on board crabbers, longliners, seiners, draggers, factory trawlers, trollers, gillnetters,
• Processing vessel injuries – accident claims involving ocean-going fish processing plants
• State ferry injuries – representing Washington and Alaska state ferry employees in accident claims involving ferries serving Puget Sound, Southeast Alaska, and South Central Alaska
• Maintenance and cure – legal duty of a ship owner to provide medical coverage and wages to seamen injured while at sea
• Injuries at sea – life-changing injuries sustained on fishing boats and processors, cargo ships, or other merchant marine vessels; including traumatic brain injuries (TBI), neck and spinal injuries, back injuries, paralysis, amputation, eye injuries

If you have suffered injuries at sea and have questions about your rights to a damage settlement, contact an experienced maritime law attorney. Call Beard Stacey Trueb & Jacobsen, LLP, toll free at 1-800-273-4743.