The U.S. Coast Guard and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are calling for stronger safety measures aboard oil platforms after an explosion on a Lake Pontchartrain oil rig left multiple workers injured and one
August 14, 2017
United States Supreme Court upholds $4.2MM Jones Act Seaman verdict for Broussard, David & Moroux client
In an important maritime law decision protecting seaman all over the county, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Louisiana verdict secured for an injured maritime worker. Attorney Blake R. David (lead counsel)...
August 10, 2017
$3.2MM Settlement Obtained for Injured Offshore Worker
Jerome Moroux of the law firm Broussard, David & Moroux, recently obtained a settlement of over $3.2MM on behalf of an offshore worker who sustained an injury while entering a vessel in Vermilion Parish. The incident...
A slip and fall accident in Las Vegas, Nevada resulted in an eleven-day trial where the jury returned a verdict of more than $16 million to a plaintiff who fell in a Lowe’s Home Center, fracturing her skull and causing a...
An interesting case recently arose out of the Northern District of California. A ferry boat captain was found partially responsible for a collision in which he was using his cell phone in the minutes before his boat wrecked