Why You Need An Injury Attorney For Trawl Winch Accidents

An experienced maritime injury attorney must be familiar with many types of offshore hazards. For example, a trawl winch could be considered a hazard on a sometimes dangerous maritime job. Often heavy and operated with complex machinery, these wind-affected tools are used on offshore rigs and seafaring vessels to carry loads of various sizes. Unfortunately, they have been responsible for several deaths and nearly thirty injuries from the years 2001 to 2011.

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The History of Maritime Law

The history of maritime law is a blend of centuries-old doctrines, international treaties, contemporary legislation, private contracts, and some additional elements crammed into one set of interdependent legal rules. The earliest laws go back to the 7th Century when the maritime code of the Island of Rhodes that governed commercial trade and navigation influenced the maritime law of medieval Italian cities.

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Maritime Personal Injury- Negligence

Doyle LLP Trial Lawyers has filed suit against Ariel of SW Florida LLC for negligence, unseaworthiness, and wrongful denial of maintenance and cure arising from a hand injury sustained upon the Defendant’s vessel that led to a serious bone infection.  At the time of the incident, Doyle LLP’s Client was working as a shrimp boat captain in the Gulf of Mexico.

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