Ordinarily, an injured worker can seek financial relief for injuries through a workers’ compensation claim. However, when the workplace is a boat, ship, barge or other waterborne vessel and injury is a result of negligence by an employer or co-worker, an injured seaman or dock worker can file a lawsuit against the employer. This is true, thanks to the Jones Act, a federal statute designed to protect merchant marines. The Roach Law Firm in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is a reliable source of information and advocacy for injured people whose accidents fall under provisions of the Jones Act. Were you injured in or near Louisiana on a boat, barge, sea vessel, floating offshore platform or dock (while assigned to a fleet or vessel)?