Jones Act Verdicts/Settlements

v. Barge Company
Injury: Amputated Leg Below the Knee
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: Foot caught in wire and was pulled into buttons. The parties reached a settlement two days before trial.

v. Riverway Harbor Service St. Louis, Inc.
Injury: Paralysis
Amount: $7,500,000 Verdict
Facts: The deckhand was permanently paralyzed from the waist down when a crane failed and a barge cover hit him.

v. Spartan Transportation Company
Injury: Amputated Left Leg
Amount: $1,500,000 Verdict
Facts: The plaintiff was attempting to climb the ladder of the lock wall when his left leg was crushed between the barge and the lock wall. He is unable to return to barge work.

v. Barge Company
Injury: Closed Head Injury
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: Closed head injury when deckhand hit his head on side of barge while playing frisbee inside an empty barge with pilot, mate and another deckhand. The parties reached a settlement on the first day of trial.

v. Luhr Brothers
Injury: Amputated Left Leg
Amount: $1,150,000 Settlement
Facts: The 25-year-old barge worker lost his leg below the knee when his foot was pulled by a line and went through the "D" ring. He is unable to return to barge work.

v. Excell Marine
Injury: Bulging disc
Amount: $850,000 Settlement
Facts: While catching two crewmembers from falling in the river, the deckhand injured his back.

v. Barge Company
Injury: Amputated Leg Below the Knee
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: While doing fleeting work on an open hopper coal barge, his right leg was caught in a lock line, crushing it against the barge timberhead and severing his leg. After four days of trial, a confidential settlement was reached.

v. Barge Company
Injury: Two Operated Herniated Discs
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: While stepping from grating located over the steering rams, the plaintiff slipped and fell, causing a herniated disc due to no non-skid paint.

v. Winterville Marine
Injury: Ruptured Disc
Amount: $550,000 Settlement
Facts: When coming down a ladder after watch, an engineer slipped in oil from an improperly maintained engined.

v. Barge Company
Injury: Amputated Leg Below the Knee
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: Slipped in grain on barge and crushed foot between the barge and the boat.

v. Campbell Transportation
Injury: Amputated Leg Below the Knee
Amount: $1,100,000 Settlement
Facts: Leg caught in line and pulled into cavil; he was unable to return to barge work.

v. Conti Carriers & Terminal
Injury: Death
Amount: $700,000 Settlement
Facts: The first mate slipped on an icy barge deck and was crushed between the barge and lock wall as the tow was entering the lock.

v. Barge Company
Injury: Multiple Internal Injuries
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: Fell from top of wheelhouse to bottom deck when pilot turned on radar.

v. ARTCO
Injury: Knee Injury
Amount: $650,000 Settlement
Facts: After asking the mate for deicing chemicals and being refused, the deckhand slipped on an icy barge deck and twisted his knee.

v. Barge Company
Injury: Amputated Leg
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: The 31-year-old barge worker was injured in an accident after numerous complaints of a broken capstain and the barge being improperly "faced up". He is unable to return to barge work.

v. Illinois Marine Towing
Injury: Multiple Foot Fractures
Amount: $611,000 Verdict
Facts: Pilot hit barge hard, knocking deckhand off the bull rail and foot was caught between boat and barge.

v. Cahokia Marine
Injury: Low Back and Shoulder
Amount: $600,000 Settlement
Facts: A longshoreman, attempting to escape a sinking barge loaded with steel coils, fell from the top of a ladder 16 feet to the cargo box floor causing a torn rotator cuff and herniated discs in his back.

v. Patton-Tulley
Injury: Fractured Vertebrae
Amount: $775,000 Verdict
Facts: The deckhand fell seven feet onto a loaded barge when his supervisor failed to hold a ladder properly.

v. Mardi Boggs
Injury: Multiple Fractures to Leg
Amount: $550,000 Settlement
Facts: Line parted and struck deckhand in leg.

v. Waxler Towing
Injury: Crushed Right Hand
Amount: $522,587 Verdict
Facts: Plaintiff picked up a piece of packing from the deck and brushed against an engine head sitting on a shelf that wasn't designed to hold such an item. The engine head rolled off the shelf and fell onto the deck, injuring the plaintiff's right index finger, leaving him with a permanent disability and limited use of his right hand.

v. Ingram Barge
Injury: Low Back
Amount: $491,188
Facts: While the plaintiff was making his bed and standing on the 3rd ring of bunk bed ladder, the ladder came loose on the right side causing the plaintiff to fall and injuring his low back.

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