Recreational boating accidents. Cruise ship employees injured on the job. These sound like cases for a regular personal injury attorney, don’t they? After all, they both involve injuries and personal injury attorneys handle workplace injury cases all the time, right? Although many personal injury lawyers will often take cases about boating accidents and workplace injuries, if you ever find yourself in a situation involving being injured on a boat or on the water, you may want to make a maritime lawyer your first phone call rather than a regular personal injury attorney. The Admiralty Law Guide has many examples of recent cases that fall under maritime law. One of them might be like yours!
Maritime law, also referred to as Admiralty law, applies to all navigable bodies of water usable for interstate or international commerce. This is an extremely complex area of the law. Under maritime law, U.S. Federal Courts do not have exclusive jurisdiction, so cases for certain types of incidents can be filed in either state or federal court. Different types of accidents are bound by different statutes of limitations. Things only get more complicated if an incident happens on international waters. Unless a lawyer exclusively specializes in maritime law, they aren’t likely to be aware of all the intricacies involved in your case. So even though something might seem like a run-of-the mill workplace injury or personal injury case, if it happens on the water, there’s a good chance it’s anything but ordinary as far as the law is concerned.
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