Longshore & Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Attorneys
Our attorneys are experienced in the litigation of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) claims before the U.S. Department of Labor. This Law provides for payment of compensation for disability or death of an employee resulting from an injury occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States, including any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way, marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel.
The term "employee" is defined as any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and any harbor worker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and shipbreaker. Coverage under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act requires both situs location, or situs, and status, but certain kinds of locations, such as physical presence on actual navigable waters, will fulfill the status requirement. The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is construed as reflecting the recognition by Congress that modern developments in cargo handling have resulted in a great deal of traditional longshoring work being moved from the holds of ships to shoreside loading areas in which containers of cargo are loaded and unloaded in much the same manner as the holds of ships so that coverage of the employees doing this work should be expanded to cover the realities of their employment.
Under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA), workers injured while handling containerized cargo or conventional, noncontainerized forms of cargo, are engaged in maritime employment so as to be covered by the Act if they were engaged in intermediate steps of moving cargo between ship and land transportation. Employees injured while working in capacities directly supporting the loading and unloading of ships are within the maritime employment requirements of the Act, at least where there was some direct involvement with maritime activities. The Act is not intended to cover purely clerical workers or other workers employed in or adjacent to marine terminals whose duties do not constitute an integral part of the loading or unloading process or fall within some other traditionally maritime area. The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act specifically mentions shipbuilding, ship repair, and shipbreaking as maritime employment so that the question becomes one of determining whether particular work comes within the meaning of these terms.
Working at a port or shipyard is dangerous. If you are or know a longshoreman or harbor worker who has been injured in any of the following ways while working in ports or shipyards, please have them call one of our attorneys for free legal advice.
- Back Injuries
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Neck Injuries
- Shoulder Injuries
- Catastrophic Injuries
- Amputations
- Crush Injuries
- Chemical Injuries
- Brain Injuries
- Hearing and Vision Loss
- Burns
- Injuries from Repetitive Use
- Aggravation of Previous Injuries
- Wrongful or Accidental Death
Grossman Attorneys at Law
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Our maritime and longshore and harborworkers compensation act lawyers are experienced in representing injured dock and harbor workers who were hurt while unloading ships, including container ships, throughout Broward and South Palm Beach County, including Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Cypress Creek, Coconut Creek, Margate and Parkland. Our LHWCA lawyers represent seriously injured port workers residing in Parkland, Fort Lauderdale, North Lauderdale, Weston, Davie, Pompano Beach, Hillsboro Beach, Cypress Creek and Sunrise, FL.
Our attorneys stand ready to assist all workers injured on Florida piers, wharfs and ports. Our Florida Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act Attorneys represent injured workers in Fort Lauderdale, Port Everglades, Jacksonville, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Port Canaveral, Miami, Fort Myers, Pensacola, Miami, North Miami, Sunrise, Miami Beach, Key Largo, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, Cocoa Beach, Orlando, and all of Florida.
If you have been injured while working at a port unloading or loading ships, repairing ships, or working on vessels or container ships, call our lawyer Howard Grossman or Timothy Nies free consultation. Our attorneys are experienced in handling cases involving back injuries, herniated disks, shoulder injuries, torn rotator cuffs, wrongful death, crushed and broken bones, head injuries, knee injuries, brain injuries and all other types of serious injuries.
Our longshore lawyers in FL are experienced in litigating claims before the DOL. If you have been injured while working at a port or a shipyard, our workers compensation lawyers can assist you with filing your DOL claim.
Our admiralty and maritime lawyer firm litigate Longshore cases on behalf of client who reside in Miami, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Duval, Collier, Brevard, Miami-Dade, and all Florida counties. The decision to seek legal representation often involves the cost/benefit issue of having a lawyer involved with dispute resolution. Unlike most workers compensation statutes, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Act allows the attorney who successfully prosecutes a claim on behalf of an injured harbor worker, stevedore, etc. to assess attorney fees and costs against the Employer, in addition to the benefits owed to the injured worker. Lawyers who represent injured workers under the Longshore and Harborworkers Act do not claim a percentage of the benefits paid to their clients.
