There are roughly 5,000 law firms in the United States that advertise "personal injury" as a practice area. There are fewer than 100 that handle Jones Act cases seriously. There are fewer still that handle them exclusively. InjuredCrew is built on the belief that the second number is the only one that matters.
Maritime injury law is its own world. The statutes are specific — the Jones Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, the Death on the High Seas Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. The doctrines are specific — seaman status, unseaworthiness, maintenance and cure, the "slightest negligence" standard. The venues are specific — a mix of federal admiralty jurisdiction and state courts with their own rules. The defendants are specific — a set of offshore operators, shipping lines, fishing companies, and inland towing outfits whose defense playbooks have been refined over decades.
A general PI firm that dabbles in Jones Act work will miss things. An insurance-defense firm that used to defend these cases before switching sides will mis-apply old habits. A firm that handles everything from slip-and-fall at the grocery store to trucking to med-mal to maritime will not give your case the depth it needs.
InjuredCrew handles one kind of case. We do it well because it's all we do.
What we believe.
The Jones Act exists for a reason. Congress passed it in 1920 because Congress had seen what happens to injured seamen without it. The law was written to be generous — the "slightest negligence" standard, the no-fault maintenance and cure right, the unseaworthiness doctrine — because the work is dangerous and the workers deserve protection. Every time we try a case, we're enforcing what Congress meant.
Plaintiff-only means something. We have never represented an insurance company, a vessel owner, a maritime employer, or a P&I club. We will not. The work we do requires us to know the defense playbook cold — but we don't run it, and our clients never have to wonder which side we're really on.
Good lawyering is detail work. Maritime cases are won in the small things: the MRI ordered early, the incident report questioned, the crew-member witness tracked down, the unseaworthy-condition theory preserved, the wage-earning expert retained. We sweat the details.
You deserve to understand your case. Too many clients of too many firms have no idea what their lawyer is doing from one month to the next. We keep you informed. You get call-backs. You get explanations. You get answers that aren't lawyer-speak.
What we handle.
Every case we take involves a working maritime vessel or a worker who qualifies as a seaman under the Jones Act. Within that, we cover:
Offshore oil & gas. Drillships, jackups, semisubmersibles, FPSOs, supply vessels, lift boats. Roughnecks through toolpushers.
Commercial fishing. Crabbers, trawlers, longliners, scallopers, factory processors. Alaska through the Gulf.
Inland tug & barge. Line-haul, harbor, ICW. Deckhands through captains.
Harbor operations. Ship-assist tugs, dredges, pilot operations, port support vessels.
Cruise & passenger. Foreign-flag crew claims — handled with the specific rules and deadlines that distinct legal regime requires.
Emerging sectors. Offshore wind service vessels, specialized research vessels, OSV work on new-generation platforms.
We handle cases across the injury spectrum — from single-surgery back cases to catastrophic amputations to wrongful-death claims — in all major maritime venues nationwide.
How we work.
Contingency fees, no exceptions. You don't pay us unless we win. The fee is a percentage of the recovery, agreed upfront and in writing. No hourly bills, no retainer, no surprise invoices.
We advance costs. Experts, depositions, medical records, filing fees — we pay these as the case progresses and recover them only from the settlement or verdict.
We return calls. The lawyer on your case will call you back, not a paralegal. Within the same business day, usually within hours.
We go to you. Offshore workers are rarely at home. We travel to hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and home addresses from the Gulf to Alaska.
We honor the work. The people who move America's oil, catch its seafood, push its cargo, and build its offshore future are the backbone of an industry most Americans never see. When they get hurt, they deserve lawyers who understand what they actually do.