Your Employer
Remember: It is in your employer’s best interest to become your adversary following a Jones Act injury. No matter what your employer tells you, and no matter how helpful your employer appears, once you’ve been injured, you have become a financial and a physical liability to the vessel. Almost without exception, your employer will look for ways to minimize company losses by:
- Sending you to the company doctor
- Failing to notify the Jones Act insurance carrier
- Failing to notify you of your rights
- Delaying maintenance payments
- Prompting you to file on your own health insurance
- Talk you out of hiring a Jones Act lawyer
- Motivate you to quit your job
- Create doubt and suspicion among your supervisors and coworkers
- Influence coworkers to testify against you
- Create or emphasize evidence against you
- Try to convince you that the injury was your fault
- Much, much more
The employer always has an advantage following a Jones Act injury. It is in the employer’s best interest to keep you ignorant about your rights. But, you are not alone, and you are not without help and assistance. Consult with a knowledgeable Jones Act attorney today.
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Updated: November 13, 2011
- Claims can result in large cash awards?
- You may be eligible for attorney loans?
- You are allowed to choose your own doctor?
- Following an injury, your employer cannot be trusted?
- That attorneys can help you secure medical tests and treatment?
- That the Jones Act is almost no fault?
- If you have been injured on the water, then chances are, you are covered by the Jones Act!