Diver Injury
Louisiana Diving Accident Attorney
The law firm of Joseph Joy & Associates represents divers who are injured while working for oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico. We also represent family members of divers who have been killed in oil field accidents.
Oil field diving takes place in a dangerous environment, and the deeper you dive the more unforgiving the environment gets and the more serious the injury if something goes wrong. Louisiana maritime attorney has more than thirty two years of experience representing divers who have been seriously injured on the job due to:
- Using the wrong dive table
- Repetitive diving
- Improper gas mixtures
- Being pulled up too quickly
- Staying at depth too long
- Improper hypobaric chamber decompression
- Vessel negligence
- Equipment failure
If you have been injured in an oil field diving accident, you are covered by a special law known as the Jones Act. The Jones Act provides special protection to workers on boats and other types of vessels. If you and your lawyer can prove that your employer was negligent (that is, provided an unsafe place to work), then you can recover compensation for pain, suffering, and disability. You can also recover full wages lost due to the accident. Under the Jones Act, any injured person who is not offered fair compensation by an employer can have his or her case decided by a jury. This can be beneficial because jury members should have much more in common with an injured worker than with the oil and gas company and its insurance carrier.
If you have been hurt in an oilfield diving accident and the company doctor says that you don't need medical attention, call maritime lawyer Joseph Joy immediately. The employer's doctor is likely to be biased against you and in favor of your employer, so it is important that you also have your own treating physician. We will make sure that you get the medical care and the compensation that you deserve.
The law firm of Joseph Joy & Associates represents injured divers on a contingency fee basis, which means that we earn attorney fees only if we are successful in obtaining compensation for you. We offer a free initial consultation to evaluate your case.
About Your Attorney
Louisiana diving injury lawyer Joseph Joy attended Mississippi State University on a Southeastern Conference football scholarship and received another scholarship to attend Loyola Law school in New Orleans. He is a certified diver who has a first-hand understands the risks and the types of injuries that can occur during offshore diving.
Contact Louisiana diving accident attorney Joseph Joy for a free case evaluation.
Louisiana diving accident attorney Joseph Joy serves clients in all of Louisiana, including Lafayette, Lake Charles, Morgan City, Opelousas, Carencro, Crowley, Jennings, Welsh, Broussard, New Iberia, Patterson, Berwick, and Morgan City.
