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We represent workers injured or killed while working at Port Everglades in Broward County, Florida. Our law firm's attorneys are aggressive and zealous advocates for injured crane operators, steveadore and other harbor workers injured or killed while working at the Port Everglades. Our senior attorney is both AV-Rated and a Florida Bar Board-Certified Workers Compensation Specialist.
Our attorneys are experienced in the litigation of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act claims. The Longshore Act provides for payment of compensation for disability or death of an employee resulting from an injury occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States, including any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way, marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel. The term "employee" is defined as any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and any harborworker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and shipbreaker. Coverage under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act requires both situs location, or situs, and status, but certain kinds of locations, such as physical presence on actual navigable waters, will fulfill the status requirement. The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is construed as reflecting the recognition by Congress that modern developments in cargo handling have resulted in a great deal of traditional longshoring work being moved from the holds of ships to shoreside loading areas in which containers of cargo are loaded and unloaded in much the same manner as the holds of ships so that coverage of the employees doing this work should be expanded to cover the realities of their employment.
Under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA), workers injured while handling containerized cargo or conventional, noncontainerized forms of cargo are engaged in maritime employment so as to be covered by the Act if they were engaged in intermediate steps of moving cargo between ship and land transportation. Employees injured while working in capacities directly supporting the loading and unloading of ships are within the maritime employment requirements of the Act, at least where there was some direct involvement with maritime activities. The Act is not intended to cover purely clerical workers or other workers employed in or adjacent to marine terminals whose duties do not constitute an integral part of the loading or unloading process or fall within some other traditionally maritime area. The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act specifically mentions shipbuilding, ship repair, and shipbreaking as maritime employment so that the question becomes one of determining whether particular work comes within the meaning of these terms.
Working at any of Florida's Port is dangerous. If you are or know a longshoreman or harbor worker who has been injured in any of the following ways while working in Florida ports, our teams of lawyers, paralegals, nurses and investigators can help:
- Back Injuries
- Neck Injuries
- Catastrophic Injuries
- Amputations
- Crush Injuries
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Brain Injuries
- Hearing and Vision Loss
- Burns
- Injuries from Repetitive Use
- Aggravation of Previous Injuries
- Wrongful or Accidental Death
For more information, please contact us by calling 1-877-733-5878 or by completing the form below. Our attorneys and staff speak Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Timothy C. Nies, Esquire
Tel: 954-302-8919
Toll-free: 1-877-733-5878
E-mail: timnies@ymail.com. 
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