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Verdicts & Settlements
$5,900,000
-The Plaintiff lost his balance, fell over the side of the vessel, and landing on the dock approximately 35 ft below. As a result of the fall, Plaintiff broke numerous bones in his body, suffered a variety of internal injuries with damage to various organs and was diagnosed with a severe traumatic brain injury with severe frontal lobe injury.
$4,500,000
-On August 5, 2005, Plaintiff entered the lower pipe tunnel to perform her weekly safety checks. Plaintiff descended the ladder from the engine room, tested the aft bilge alarm, walked the length of the pipe tunnel, checked the port side escape trunk, tested the forward bilge alarm and then proceeded to climb up the ladder to the starboard escape trunk.
$3,400,000
-On July 30, 2000, the VALIANT, a 130-foot ocean-going tug was in a shipyard in Tampa, Florida. The plaintiff was carrying approximately a four-by-four piece of cardboard with a piece of equipment on it when he fell through the open hatch down into the engine room approximately 14 feet. As a result, Plaintiff became a T6 paraplegic. Plaintiff did not have any memory of the accident.
$2,500,000
-The plaintiff was employed as an oiler on a 650 foot tanker the S/R Charleston, which transports crude oil and product from Texas to New York. In the engine room was a steel storage rack that held five to seven pieces of 4-foot by 4-foot pieces of steel and various small pieces of steel.
$2,450,000
-On November 10, 2002, the USNS WATSON was in Port Salalah, Oman. Plaintiff's accident involved the releasing of the mooring lines to a tug. In order to release the lines a winch is used. However, on that day, the winch malfunctioned and the Plaintiff and crew were forced to manually release the line. As Plaintiff manually released the line by hand, the strain on the line was rapidly increasing from the tug reeling in its line, the USNS WATSON steaming away or a combination of both.
$2,300,000
-This case involves a motor vehicle accident that occurred on November 28, 1997 at the intersection of Hobbs Road and Route 1 in North Hampton, New Hampshire. The plaintiff, who was not wearing his seatbelt, sustained severe personal injuries and became a quadriplegic from the accident.
$2,100,000
-The plaintiff's shattered dream of being able to sail on tankers as a sea captain generated a verdict of approximately $2.1 million. Although the plaintiff suffered only a minor physical injury of a mild compression fracture of the thoracic vertebra, the jury awarded damages of approximately $500,000 for the plaintiff's mental anguish for not being able to pursue his chosen career as a sea captain.
$2,017,000
-On November 25, 2003, the plaintiff was employed as a member of the crew of the F/V GEORGIE J. The crew was hauling back and was in the process of unloading scallops on the boat when a 20-ton block broke free, striking the plaintiff. The plaintiff was scalped and sustained crush injuries to his C3/C4 vertebras rendering him an incomplete quadriplegic.
$1,700,000
-In the evening of August 4, 2001, the F/V STARBOUND departed George's Bank bound for the port of Rockland, ME. Earlier that same day, the M/T VIRGO departed the port of Boston, MA headed for Come By Chance, Newfoundland, Canada. In the early morning hours of August 5, 2001, the M/T VIRGO and the F/V STARBOUND collided approximately 130 miles east of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
$1,450,000
-On Feb. 21, 1995, the plaintiff was directing the operator of the forklift into the garage. The plaintiff stopped at the forklift operator and then went over to the machine to speak to him. After talking with the operator and then went over to the machine to speak to him. After talking with the operator, the plaintiff turned and walked away from the forklift. The operator then turned the wheel a full turn and proceeded ahead. As he did this, the tail swing of the machine ran over the plaintiff's legs and feet.
$1,450,000
-The plaintiff's decedent, 41, and the father of four minor children, was crushed to death between 40-foot seagoing containers (shipping containers designed to be stowed aboard a ship or placed in an over-the-road chassis to be towed by a truck) at the John F. Moran Container Terminal, which is owned and operated by Massachusetts Port Authority.
$1,150,000
-On October 1, 2003, the 39-year old plaintiff welder was working on a construction site when he was hit in the left arm by a six-inch long steel pin that flew out of a grapple bucket as it was being lifted by a crane. As a result of the accident, the welder suffered a broken left forearm, nerve damage in the left shoulder and arm, a fractured skull, a perforated right ear drum, minor hearing loss in his right ear, headaches, a back injury and some numbness in his left leg.
$1,100,000
-Two seamen, members of the crew of the M/V Islander in the summer of 2004, brought claims under the Jones Act and federal maritime law after they were injured during a lifeboat drill while employed by the defendant.
$1,030,000
-Mr. Kenny was a pile driver superintendent for Cashman/KPA. He was injured on April 21, 1998 when he was crushed between a fender and a pier. As a result of the injury, he suffered a left L4-5 arthropathy (arthritis of the vertebra).
$1,020,000
-The plaintiff, Todd Hibbert, was a chief engineer aboard a hopper dredge (a vessel used to remove mud and silt from the bottom of water) for the defendant, Weeks Marine. The plaintiff sustained permanent damage to his right hand when he was injured during the course of his employment aboard the hopper dredge, R.N. WEEKS.
$1,000,000
-As the stern of the vessel continued to sink evenly into the water, the crew donned their survival suits in preparation for abandoning ship. Soon thereafter the stern became submerged and the vessel rolled over.
$991,000
-The plaintiff, a commercial fisherman, cut his hand while working with a knife repairing a fishing net hanging from the stern of the defendant's vessel. The plaintiff ordered evidence that immediately prior to the accident the plaintiff requested that the captain slow the vessel down and lower the net onto the deck in a position where it could be safely worked on. According to the plaintiff, the captain refused.
$940,000
-The plaintiff had gone to bed early that night, and, before going to sleep, had locked her door and taken medication in order to help her sleep. In the morning early hours, on two separate occasions, the chef, who was intoxicated, used a master key given to him by other crew members, went into the plaintiff's room and sexually assaulted her.
$920,172
-At the time of his injury, the plaintiff was a 46-year-old seaman employed by the defendant as an able bodied seaman on the passenger ferry M/V EAGLE. The plaintiff was injured when he was struck in the hip by a wooden stick being swung by a fellow crew member who was involved in a fight with a third crew member.
$900,000
-The Plaintiff was a seaman and first assistant engineer on the T/S DYNACHEM. On January 9, 2000, while he was in the process of disembarking the T/S DYNACHEM via the pilot ladder, the Plaintiff's feet were compressed between the hull of the T/S DYNACHEM and the bow of the M/V ISLAND COMMUTER 2, which was providing launch services to the T/S DYNACHEM.
$900,000
-On July 8, 1997, the plaintiff was employed as a boatswain on a 755-foot integrated tug barge. On that day the plaintiff allegedly lifted a 250-300 pound pennant line over a rail and herniated a disc in his back. The plaintiff continued to work and did not report the accident until approximately Aug. 4, 1997, when he received a "not fit for duty" and was discharged from the vessel.
$748,507
-At approximately 2 a.m., as the plaintiff was releasing a line of the tug, he contended that the tug suddenly and without warning started to speed away. The line started to move uncontrollably and whip around and allegedly caught the plaintiff's leg in the line. Due to the force, the plaintiff was pulled into a piece of the ship's equipment and his ankle was severed from his body.
$675,000
-This case involves a motorcycle - pickup truck collision on Route 3 a couple of miles outside of downtown Belfast. The plaintiff was operating his motorcycle eastbound, and a driver for the defendant was operating a Ford F350 pickup with a trailer westbound. The defendant's driver entered the left turn lane. There was no stop sign. The driver made his left turn in front of the plaintiff, cutting him off, and the plaintiff collided with the left front side of the pickup truck.
$675,000
-On April 29, 1996, the plaintiff sustained a cervical herniation resulting in incomplete quadriplegia while operating a small boat with Happy's Handi-Mate Outboard Motor Extension Handle off the coast of Popham Beach, Maine. The plaintiff was unable to control the speed and direction of his boat because the Handi-Mate loosened after it was attached to the outboard motor hand.
$600,000
-The plaintiff, a passenger, was involved in the Back Bay Amtrak collision of December 12, 1990. She sustained a herniated disc, although not diagnosed until one year after the crash.
$500,000
-On Nov. 7, 1997, the 55-year-old plaintiff, a seaman and a crew member on the defendant's vessel, was hauling gear when the ground wires parted and the vessel lost its gear, sustaining a L4-5 disc herniation, right shoulder dislocation, rotator cuff tear, multiple abdominal injuries, lacerated liver and kidney hematoma.
$475,000
-From November 1994 to April 1995 the plaintiff was employed as a cook by the defendant corporation on the sailing vessel. The plaintiff claimed that he was continuously exposed to excessive and deafening noise.
$474,653
-The plaintiff was injured while attempting to remove a jammed manual twist lock from a container while the container was about 2 to 3 feet above a truck chassis. As the plaintiff attempted to remove the twist lock, the container allegedly dropped and crushed his hand between the container and the truck chassis.
$450,000
-On February 7, 2001, the plaintiff was employed as a member of the crew of the F/V NORTH CAPE. The plaintiff alleged that he was ordered back to work after informing the captain that he was sick. In the process of sharpening a blade of a piece of machinery the plaintiffs index, middle and ring fingers of his right hand were severely amputated.
$440,000
-Summary of case: This case involved a pleasure boat accident in Shinnecock Inlet on Long Island in New York in July, 2005. The defendant, a boat mechanic, hit a standing swell too fast and subsequently injured the Plaintiff. Settlement was difficult because there were a number of liens on the file. The parties had an all day mediation with an experienced mediator that got the parties close, but months of follow up negotiations were required to settle the case.
$307,000
-The Plaintiff contended that the Defendant was negligent in failing to provide a safe place to work, that the Defendant was negligent in that the crew members failed to properly slide the lobster trap to the Plaintiff in that they threw it. Throwing the trap was against standard operating procedure and the case settled prior to trial for $307,000.
$214,350
-The plaintiff, Manual Tavares, a mate aboard a scalloper, sustained permanent injury to his left hand. The plaintiff's middle left finger was crushed when a drag, which he was replacing a shackle on, slipped and crushed his finger. Subsequent to the accident, the tip of the plaintiff's middle finger was amputated.