A boating accident lawyer can help you navigate a boating death aftermath

No one wants to be a number, yet numbers don’t lie: The United States has more than 12 million boats and personal water craft, and even though a vast percentage are operated safely, that doesn’t stop thousands of boating accidents from occurring each year.

Hundreds of these accidents involve deaths – perhaps wrongful deaths caused by negligence or alcohol use. If a loved one has suffered death in a boating accident, you may be entitled to a wrongful death lawsuit which recovers damages. Such wrongful deaths may range from working seamen to ferry passengers to those using freshwater jet skis or diving from the side of a boat.

Your options are to pursue compensation via federal maritime law or under a particular state’s wrongful death laws.  Statutes of limitations may vary, so you should consult a boating accident lawyer immediately. By such means you may gain compensation for lost wages, pain and suffering, or other damages caused by the negligence of others.

If you have been injured as a result of the negligence of others, call our office for a FREE consultation at 1-800-505-1414, or fill out our FREE case evaluation form.

Watery woes

A boating accident can occur with the same frequency on waters as cars accidents occur on comparably traveled roads. Boating accidents normally involve collisions between multiple boats or between boats and docks; jet ski or water skiing mishaps; boats hitting people in the water; and accidents caused by drunk boat drivers.

Since boating often involves recreation, alcohol as a contributor to accidents and deaths is common. Boating also often involves dangerous high speeds and lack of sufficient lighting at night.

An accident can also be caused by defective parts on a boat, which can be the result of negligence by the owner. In other cases, Coast Guard rules of waterways may go unobserved.

Boating isn’t easy

Also a contributor is the fact that many people see boating as easier than driving cars. They underestimate the dangers of driving boats when, in effect, waterways are like vast parking lots with no traffic lines and many vehicles moving indiscriminately- the perfect scenario for an accident. An outing on a lake or other waterway may seem like leisure, but it can be fraught with danger.

While survivors of the victim of a boating accident can’t bring back their loved one, they can file a wrongful death suit. Such survivors should contact a boating accident attorney to explore their just compensation. Find out more about boating accidents via the News and Views legal blog. Also, contact a Jim S. Adler & Associates personal injury attorney today for a free case review.

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