If someone in your family was harmed or injured while working in a maritime job or on an offshore rig, you know that his or her recovery is very expensive. You know that it involves skyrocketing medical bills, missing wages due to missed work and a variety of other injury related costs. That’s why you’re looking for solutions — for the means by which you can recover such costs when an accident injury was caused by the negligence of another worker or of a captain, owner or employer of a rig, ship or vessel. One such solution you may have encountered is known as the Jones Act. That’s the name of a federal maritime law written in 1920 which still protects workers on waters today. But how effective is the Jones Act? In other words, which injury costs does the Jones Act cover? Actually, it covers so many costs that you can stop considering other means of financial compensation as your primary means of recovery. Instead, you can rely on the Jones Act as a protection for your injury accident losses. That’s what it’s designed to do, and that’s what it still does today, over 90 years after the statute was enacted. For one thing, the Jones Act can help you recover money for mental anguish, as well as for pain and suffering, caused by an accident injury on a maritime or offshore job. Such costs aren’t as easily measurable or quantified as for, say, a series of hospital bills, but they are considered costs nonetheless, and you can secure compensation for them in the legal arena. Such …
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