California Speedboat Accident Lawyer

Maison Law helps California victims injured in speedboat accidents.

If you were injured by a speedboat or while aboard a speedboat, 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.

Why You Might Do Better with a Lawyer

After a frightening boating accident, you might return home with a major injury to find a stack of hospital bills waiting for you. You may also notice several paychecks missing since you’ve had to miss work.

With a serious injury, recovery costs will rise, and insurance companies will start to put more and more roadblocks in your path to getting financial help.

A skilled Maison Law representative can fight back with a full investigation and with the evidence it uncovers. A lawyer deflects false accusations, trying to blame you for a boat accident, or trying to paint your injuries as very minor.

A boating accident attorney can safeguard your case and often earn you more when these injuries and tragic outcomes are involved:

• Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), including moderate to severe concussions
• Tendon, ligament, and muscle tears
• Broken bones
• Knee and hip injuries
• Neck and back injuries (including serious whiplash cases and spinal column damage)
• Burns and other skin damage
• The effects of a near-drowning
• A fatal boating accident that claims a loved one’s life (e.g., drowning)

You always have the right to file your own accident claim, but if you must take on major insurance companies or lawyers for tour and rental businesses, having your own lawyer can level the playing field.

A Free Consultation for Boat Accident Victims

When you still have questions about your chances of earning support from those who cause a boating collision, it’s easy to get answers.

Maison Law offers a free, confidential case review to all California boating accident victims. We want to hear about your accident from you and then answer your questions. We can help you decide what you’ll need to pay for a full recovery and how to get the evidence you’ll need to keep insurers from dodging responsibility.

Support for Speedboat Accident Victims

Victims might suffer debilitating neck injuries upon hitting fiberglass or the surface of water. An accident might result from a collision on a busy lake, like Big Bear Lake, or from hitting reckless speeds on the turbulent San Francisco Bay.

Patients can require emergency care and even monitoring in a California Trauma Center.

The bills for this care should fall to someone responsible for a boating accident and their insurance providers.

A skilled attorney would file an injury claim for clients, and make sure it covered these and other damages:

• All medical bills victims have already received, and those expected in the future.
• Long-term costs that come with a permanent physical disability.
• Financial support for emotional distress and the physical pain victims endure. Emotional anguish includes depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms from a scary accident on the water. The loss of enjoyment of life should also factor into
• Paychecks you’ve lost while missing work hours during recovery.
• Damage or destruction of property. Money for boat repairs or replacement.
• Wrongful death benefits for families. Families who lose a loved one to someone’s negligence on the lake are encouraged to file a wrongful death claim. This claim seeks support to pay for a funeral and burial. It would also secure money to protect the family from financial harm in the future after they’ve lost the care and financial support the deceased had always provided.

Common Causes for Speed Boat Accidents

The dangers of a speedboat accident are right there in the name. The speeds these watercraft can reach only magnify any accidents and injuries involved. An inexperienced driver or a malfunctioning boat creates extreme risks to those on the boat and those in the water.

Victims can be exposed to these hazards and others:

• Reckless and inexperienced boaters in fast boats
• Reckless charter boat captains
• Minors allowed to drive family boats
• Boating Under the Influence (BUI) as explained by the U.S. Coast Guard
• Dangers for swimmers in the water
• Passengers thrown around in turbulent waters and at high speeds
• Unsafe boats with maintenance issues or manufacturing defects
• The California Department of Parks and Recreation allowing dangers to persist on public lakes
• A lack of safety devices on board
• Negligent tour boat and boat rental companies, and Marina owners’

There are even boat rideshares popping up online. Boaters can use an app to rent other people’s boats. The boat owners and the app could be liable for providing an unsafe boater with a high-powered speedboat.

Liability in California Speedboat Accidents

A Maison Law attorney would conduct a full investigation into an accident, the person driving the boat, and any boating companies involved. Our representatives would determine every party that could be held financially liable for what happened.

In some cases, that means multiple injury claims are filed. This gives victims a bigger chance to get all of their recovery costs paid in full.

These and other entities could all face liability:

• Boat captains or drivers
• Boat owners
• Boating companies, tour companies, and rental companies
• Marinas
• A state agency responsible for keeping waterways safe
• The company that manufactured an unsafe boat or a boat shop that made a mistake in repairs

Insurance for Boating Accidents

Most boat owners aren’t required by the state to carry accident insurance. And homeowners insurance wouldn’t generally provide any insurance protection for a speedboat accident.

But owners who have financed a speedboat will likely be required to have insurance to get a loan. Marinas and harbors also usually require boaters to show proof of insurance.

Some boaters will have an insurance policy similar to car insurance. If someone at the wheel of a speedboat hurts someone else, insurance can provide support to pay the victim’s medical bills and replace lost income at the victim’s place of work. Wrongful death support is also usually covered.

Businesses that charter out speedboats and boating tours will likely have commercial liability insurance that could be called upon if someone gets hurt. Unfortunately, major companies will also be able to afford teams of lawyers to help get them off the hook for accident support.

Contact a California Speedboat Accident Lawyer Today

Attorneys are not always needed for basic property damage cases emerging from boat collisions. However, you should always consult a skilled California boating accident lawyer after any crash resulting in a serious or fatal injury.

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.