Defending Your Maritime Law Rights in Savannah and Charleston
Maritime work is dangerous.
Ship owners, tug owners, dredge owners, and maritime employers have a responsibility under the law to provide a safe place to work and to protect workers from unreasonable exposure to dangers such as:
- A dredge owner’s choice to work with shoddy equipment and a partial crew
- A shipowner not restricting access to a gangway with broken parts known only to the shipowner
- A barge operator not retiring worn mooring lines from service while not making new lines available to its workers for replacement
- A shipping terminal pushing its crane operators to rush the movement of cargo simply to increase profit
- A shipyard’s failing to follow their own hastily-drawn plans for a maintenance job on a customer’s tug
- A tug company’s failure to train its captains and replace worn-out gear.
These are all examples of negligence or irresponsibility on the part of the employer. When the irresponsibility hits our clients, literally, where it hurts—in their bodies, which, in turn, hits their wallets—the attorneys at Raley & Raley, PC are trained to help.
In many cases, the tug owners, dredge owners, and maritime employers’ irresponsibility under the law is driven by a corporate culture dedicated to profit over the safety of people: their very own workers.
When this happens, our clients hire us to try to make things right by acting as zealous advocates for the injured workers’ rights within the bounds of the law.
That is what we have been doing since 1986.
Contact the Savannah, Georgia law office of Raley & Raley, PC for more information on how they can help you. Our attorneys work with clients throughout the coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina.
