PERSONAL INJURY

The firm has experienced attorneys who handle a wide variety of cases involving personal injury.  We have a particular expertise with marine casualties involving injuries and death to seamen, passengers, longshoremen, dock workers, divers, shipyard and dry dock workers, terminal operators and other cases involving maritime casualties.  Many of the cases involve application of statutes such as the Jones Act, Death on the High Seas Act and the Ship Owners Limitation of Liability Act.  The firm also handles a wide variety of other personal injuries cases including Labor Law cases, aviation, automobile, exposures to toxins and other hazardous material.

The attorneys at this firm handling these cases in many instances have practical experience, are United States Coast Guard licensed deck officers or engineering officers, are former Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force officers with active duty experience, divers, pilots, and experienced mariners.  The attorneys handling these cases have litigated numerous cases in federal and state court principally in New York and New Jersey, but also in other jurisdictions such as Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Connecticut, Virginia and Texas.