|
Our attorneys are experienced litigators who have handled hundreds of injury cases including automobile accidents, slip and falls, medical malpractice, products liability, forklift accidents, railroad worker accidents, trucking accidents, jet ski injuries, offshore injury cases, offshore accidents and countless other types of accidents. Our primary injury focus includes Auto Accidents, admiralty law, and general personal injury cases. Our attorneys have a combined 28 years of experience. We are also recognized for providing high quality representation for many types of accidents. If you need a serious attorney for a serious injury call now.
TELEPHONE: (318) 542-4102.
Latest Auto Accident verdict:
$778,185.69. Plaintiffs v. Wal-Mart, Verdict of Trial Court plus judical interest (expert fees to be added to award upon calculation) includes $54,500 from State Farm. Auto Accident, Wal-Mart employee found to be in course and scope of employment after clocked out due to control of Wal-Mart over employee in parking lot accident with customer. Neck surgery by female plaintiff and neck injury for male plaintiff. Attorneys fees $254,829.44. Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Judgment dated May 23, 2008. Defense attorneys representing Wal-Mart - - - Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts, PLC one of Louisiana's preeminent law firms.
Our firm also handles Railroad Worker accidents. Railroad Workers are allowed to recover for injuries on the job through the Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA). The FELA is the same act adopted by Congress for Jones Act Seaman and has very similar provisions as are available under admiralty law.
The Federal Employer's Liability Act which is a specially created statute by Congress that pertains specifically to railroad workers, the railroad owes a continuing and non-delegable duty to use reasonable care to provide employees with a safe place to work. Additionally, the railroad owes a duty to provide reasonably safe, proper and suitable tools, equipment and machinery to their employees so that they can safely perform their assigned work tasks, a duty to promulgate and enforce safety rules, a duty to provide sufficient help to perform the assigned tasks, a duty to not order workers to perform work beyond their physical capabilities, as well as a duty to warn employees of hazardous and unsafe working conditions.
Under the FELA an injured worker may recover damages for past unpaid medical expenses as well as those ones he or she may reasonably incur in the future, as well as for rehabilitation expenses, for past lost earnings, as well as for future loss of earnings and earning capacity and for past and present pain and suffering.
The law regarding recoverable damages in a FELA death case is different than under the standard FELA personal injury case. A cause of action for the death of a railroad employee under the FELA is brought by the personal representative for the benefit of his or her surviving spouse and children, and, if there is none, for the decedent's parents, or, if none, for the decedent's next of kin. Thus, in a wrongful death action under the FELA the personal representative of the decedent who is acting on behalf of the next of kin is entitled to receive damages for the loss of "pecuniary benefits" which the beneficiaries might have reasonable received if the deceased had not died from the injuries. Pecuniary loss under various court cases has been found to include financial contributions which the decedent would reasonable have expected to receive in the future, the loss to the children during their minority of the training, nurturing, education and guidance of the decedent as well as conscious pain and suffering prior to death.
Telephone: (318) 542-4102
Please see our links to Offshore Injury Stories, Jet Ski Injuries and FELA Injuries
Email: david@hesserlaw.com. |
Personal Injury-Auto Accidents-Offshore Injury
