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