Discover key insights into the Jones Act, a cornerstone of maritime law, offering protection and compensation rights to injured seamen. This summary highlights the act's significance in ensuring employer accountability and promoting a safe working environment in the maritime industry.
When a sailor is injured or a maritime worker is injured or when a crew injury occurs, a vessel owner and its marine insurer like to use to the Limitation of Liability Act to prevent recovery by the injured person. This isn't fair. John Fulweiler has a lot of success defeating the Act and had recently written an article for the Rhode Island Bar Journal about the Act.
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