Offshore cases — drilling platforms, supply vessels, jack-up rigs, and floating production units — sit at the intersection of maritime law and energy litigation. The Jones Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and general maritime law all overlap. Forum selection and choice-of-law analysis can change the value of a case by an order of magnitude. Trying these cases requires lawyers who know seaman status, unseaworthiness, and the procedural posture of admiralty practice.
Every state imposes a strict deadline to file suit. In some states, claims must be filed within one or two years of the injury or death. Once that deadline passes, the case is gone forever. Federal claims and claims against government entities can have even shorter notice requirements — sometimes as little as ninety days. Do not assume you have time.
Critical evidence disappears in days, not weeks. Black-box data is overwritten. Surveillance footage is recycled. Witnesses move. Defendants and their insurers begin building their case the moment an incident occurs. The injured family deserves a litigation team moving just as fast.
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