| Have you had a particularly sunny day spending time | | | | persons in it and requires medical care beyond first |
| in a boat or yacht that turned awry due to | | | | aid and/or if damages to the vessel or property |
| unexpected accident on board and at sea? Well, | | | | exceeds five hundred dollars. |
| misfortunes do happen at the most unexpected | | | | Boating accidents involving open motorboats, personal |
| times. And sometimes, it leaves serious physical | | | | watercrafts (PWCs) or cabin motorboats are |
| injuries. Accidents on boats are particularly tricky | | | | commonly reported cases. Accidents may happen |
| since this involve the sea and its undetermined | | | | due to collisions with fixed objects or moving vessels, |
| depths. You would never know if you're going to | | | | capsizing or sinking, fire or explosion, falls or ejection |
| spend the last days of your life not on dry land... | | | | overboard and other circumstances. Often, negligence |
| Well, before we go into the gory details...we might as | | | | resulting from operator inattention is the foremost |
| well tackle your rights as victims of injury which | | | | contributing factor in a case of accidents on boats, |
| resulted from accidents on boats and what legal | | | | according to the Boating Accident Report Database |
| actions you can do. | | | | (BARD) system. Boat operator's carelessness or |
| We are going to give you the important facts you | | | | recklessness and operator's inexperience or |
| need to know, before anything else. Did you know | | | | excessive speed follows in frequency are also causes |
| that there are almost thirteen million recreational | | | | of these types of accidents. |
| numbered boats in the United States? Meanwhile, | | | | Physical harm to a person caused by a boating |
| boating accident resulting to injuries number close to | | | | accident case must be filed with the proper |
| six thousand every year and cause over thirty nine | | | | authorities within 48 hours that accident happened. |
| million dollars in property damage. Last 2002, in a | | | | On the other hand, if only vessel or property |
| boating accident case, 750 people were killed. In | | | | damage were caused by the boating accident case, |
| almost 40% of these boating accidents case fatalities | | | | case can be filed ten days from the occurrence. |
| involve alcohol. Fatalities are most often the result of | | | | If you or someone you know have been injured in a |
| drowning. | | | | boating accident case and operator negligence is |
| Once accidents on a boat or any vessel at sea occur, | | | | involved, you may be eligible to file a claim or a |
| authorities should be informed quickly about it. The | | | | lawsuit to seek compensation for damages including |
| case is required to be reported to the federal or | | | | injuries, medical costs, pain and suffering, lost wages, |
| state authorities especially when following | | | | and property or vessel damages. This may |
| circumstances happen: the accident causes the death | | | | compensate your could-have-been good day at sea, |
| or disappearance, indicating death or injury, of any | | | | but again maybe any amount wouldn't. Sad events, |
| individual; the boat accident caused injuries to the | | | | these types of accidents. |