Maison Law helps California victims injured in sailboat accidents. We help victims struck by careless sail boaters and those hurt while aboard on sailboat excursions.
If you were injured in a boating accident, contact a California Boat Accident Lawyer today for a free, confidential case evaluation. There’s never any obligation for this meeting. It’s simply a no-risk way to see what your injury may be worth, and how to hold a boat owner or recreation business responsible.
When You Need a Lawyer for a Sailboat Accident Injury Claim
If your injuries are very minor, and perhaps you simply have damage to your boat, you may not need a lawyer’s help with your claim. But when injuries are more serious, and someone else was responsible for the accident, it’s wise to have a lawyer looking out for you when taking on insurance companies.
A serious injury might include finger injuries, broken bones, Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), and neck and back injuries.
These injuries typically build up a lot more in medical costs, and often send insurance adjusters looking for ways to avoid taking blame. They might blame you for an accident on the water or try to dismiss your serious injuries as minor.
A skilled attorney thoroughly investigates what happened and ensures blame can’t be shifted. Then they demand the maximum in compensation on your behalf. You can always file a claim yourself, but when a serious injury is involved, a skilled attorney can often bring home much more for your recovery.
A Free Case Review for Boating Accident Victims
After you’ve been hurt in a sailboat accident, there’s no time to waste. You should explore your options as soon as possible. You’ll have medical bills arriving in your mailbox, all while you lose more and more valuable time at your job.
It’s important to learn about your options and begin the process of holding those responsible financially accountable. Maison Law offers a free case consultation for this purpose. Please schedule this case review that comes with no obligation to you or your family to find out what’s next.
Winning Support for Boating Accident Victims
Maison Law would be compiling a full list of the victim’s medical expenses, travel costs, and lost income. The bills victims fall behind on, like car payments and a mortgage, while they can’t work, must be factored in.
A lawyer would ask for these and other benefits on behalf of clients:
- Expenses for medical care (such as ER bills, Ambulance transport, and surgeries)
- Lost income due to injury
- Property damage
- Physical pain and suffering because of the injury
- Emotional distress
- Decreased enjoyment of life or companionship
- Wrongful death support for families who lose a loved one to a boating accident
Be aware that to earn this support, you must have evidence, and you must also file your claim before the statute of limitations (deadline). Presently, California has a two-year statute of limitations starting from the injury date to file a claim.
Common Injury Hazards on Sailboats
Sailboat captains who hurt themselves on their own sailboats may not be eligible to file a personal injury claim. There has to be someone else at fault to file a personal injury claim.
However, when someone else (another boater or a business) is responsible for an accident, and you are injured, you are empowered to file a personal injury claim and receive help with your recovery costs.
There are plenty of ways to get injured while sailing in some beautiful spots like the San Francisco Bay, the Santa Monica Bay, or even Lake Tahoe. The cause of injury is often due to someone’s negligence.
Victims can get hurt while aboard someone’s boat, or they may be aboard an excursion sailboat ride offered by a tour company. Victims might also be in their own boats when they are struck by an out-of-control sailboat or hit while they are swimming in the water.
These and other hazards can lead to serious injuries and injury claims:
- Injuries on a tour boat while dealing with things like rigging, ropes, the swinging of the boom, and winch dangers. All hazards for vulnerable fingers and skin. Shoulder and wrist injuries.
- Impaired sailboat captains.
- Inexperienced sailboat captains causing collisions.
- Head trauma caused by the swinging boom. Broken ribs and other bone fractures due to a strike.
- Victims knocked in the water.
- Slip-and-fall injuries on wet and moving decks.
- Heat stroke or hypothermia.
- Drowning and near-drowning dangers.
- Recreational companies’ failure to provide safety equipment or safety training for staff and captains.
- Sailboat rental businesses sending out boaters into bad weather.
Boat rental businesses, wine & dine excursion providers to Catalina Island, and other boaters can be held liable for the accidents and injuries they cause. Maison Law can also help tourists hurt on a sailboat trip. We can take care of local court filings and claims, while injured victims are free to return home to heal.
Contact a California Sailboat Accident Lawyer Today
If you or a loved one is hurt due to someone’s negligence on the water, contact a skilled personal injury attorney like Martin Gasparian, the founder of Maison Law. Mr. Gasparian offers a free, no-risk case consultation to all victims and their family members.
If you choose Maison Law to represent your injury claim, you won’t need any upfront money. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then, the attorney’s fee comes out of the settlement money surrendered by the insurance company.
