The Townsley Law Firm represents victims of serious personal injury in Lake Charles and surrounding Louisiana communities. Our law firm is founded on the principle that all people have rights that need to be protected. Our personal injury law firm is dedicated to providing justice for all our clients, no matter how great the odds.

Background

Located on the shores of Lake Charles in southwest Louisiana, the Townsley Law Firm represents victims of maritime injuries, offshore accidents, industrial accidents, defective products, auto accidents, medical malpractice, and other catastrophes. For more than twenty years, the Townsley Law Firm has successfully and aggressively handled a variety of personal injury claims. Combining experienced and thoughtful attorneys with an insightful and talented staff and a number of expert consultants, the Townsley Law Firm has a powerful team of professionals dedicated to protecting the rights of our injured clients.

Maritime Lawyers

Maritime law is a complex area of the law. Much of the law governing offshore and maritime injury comes from the Jones Act (the Merchant Marine Act of 1920), the Longshoreman and Harbor Workers Compensation Act, the Death on the High Seas Act, and General Maritime Law. Serious injury to a seaman impacts the victim not only physically, but also emotionally and financially. The impacts of a serious maritime injury, including immediate and long term issues that can affect the life of an injured seaman and his family, can remain long after the maritime injury occurred.

If you have been seriously injured in an maritime accident due to the negligence of another person or your employer, you owe it to yourself to be as informed as possible about long term issues and costs that may result from your maritime injury. If you are a seaman who has suffered a maritime injury while working as crew of a tanker, tug, barge, trawler, jack-up rig, semi-submersible rig, mobile offshore drilling rig, or other vessel, know your rights under the Jones Act and other maritime laws and contact a maritime lawyer at the Townsley Law Firm for help.