Jones Act Maritime Lawyer : Houston Jones Act & Maritime Injury Lawyer & Attorney : Arnold & Itkin Law Firm : Offshore Injury, Maritime Law : Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida

The maritime lawyers at Arnold & Itkin LLP recently filed suit in Galveston County, Texas, on behalf of an injured shrimp boat crew member who contracted a dangerous staph infection on his dominant hand. The injured seaman, a resident of Ft. Worth, Texas, contracted the infection while working offshore on a vessel owned by Trico Shrimp Company of Freeport, Texas, which is in Brazoria County.

In the United States, maritime law requires shipowners to provide maintenance and cure benefits to seamen who are injured in the course of their employment until they are either fit to return to duty or they reach a state of maximum medical improvement. The maintenance benefit covers basic room and board expenses, whereas the cure benefit provides for reasonable medical expenses needed to treat the injured seaman. Unfortunately, in this case Trico refused to pay any maintenance or cure.

Arnold & Itkin LLP is proud to help this seaman get the medical attention he deserves in the hope that he will be able to regain full use of his hand.

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Texas Offshore Port System (TOPS), an oil terminal and pipeline to be built of Texas coast, would be capable of handling nearly 20 percent of the nation's daily oil imports.  A 160 mile pipeline network connected to offshore pumping stations would enable tankers to unload crude about 36 miles off the coast of Freeport, Texas.  This would eliminate the requirement for the world's largest super tankers to offload crude to smaller vessels so it can be carried to refineries along the Houston Ship Channel. TOPS will be similar to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), which handles about 12 percent of the nation's crude imports. LOOP has been around since 1981 and is tied by pipeline to about half the nation's refining capacity, much of it along the Mississippi River from the New Orleans area north to Baton Rouge.

The Texas Offshore Port System, or TOPS, is a joint venture of Enterprise Products Partners LP and Teppco Partners LP, both based in Houston, and Oiltanking Holding Americas Inc., a subsidiary of Germany's privately held Marquard & Bahls AG.

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Galveston, Texas sailor Roger Stone died saving the lives of fellow crew when the Sailing Vessel CYNTHIA WOODS capsized south of Freeport, Texas.  Five sailors were rescued by the Coast Guard after floating in the Gulf of Mexico following the capsize of their boat 26 hours earlier.

Stone, who was the Safety Officer aboard the boat which was participating in the Regata de Amigos race from Galveston to Veracruz, reportedly noticed water entering the hull and forced other crew on to the deck immediately prior to the capsize.  Early indications are that the boat's keel fell off causing the boat to rapidly take on water, capsize and sink.

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