Admiralty/Maritime (offshore) - Law Firm Domengeaux Wright Roy & Edwards Attorneys Lafayette, Louisiana

Amount of Settlement	Description of Case
$24,500,000	Settlement for offshore worker on a jack-up rig who lost both his legs beneath his knees and sustained mild brain damage
$3,300,000	Settlement for roustabout who sustained hip and head injuries while working on a platform in Vermilion Bay, Louisiana
$1,570,000	Settlement for Q-Med oiler who was exposed to excessive diesel fumes in the engine room due to inadequate ventilation. Sustained carbon monoxide poisoning resulting in both physical (constant headaches) and mental problems
$1,500,000	Settlement for diesel mechanic injured offshore due to negligence of vessel owner
$1,500,000	Judgment for offshore worker unable to resume his job (microdiscectomy to lumbar spine)
$1,400,000	Settlement for oilfield worker from Great Britain who fell down a defective flight of stairs on a platform located off the coast of Africa (neck)
$1,400,000	Settlement for driller working on an offshore jack-up rig who was injured when he fell down flight of stairs because the handrail was made of casing pipe which was too large for him to grip
$1,300,000	Settlement for wrongful death of husband/father in offshore platform collapse in Gulf of Mexico
$950,000	Settlement for offshore worker (tong operator)
$835,000	Settlement for a professional bass fisherman when a steel cable ferry on Intercoastal Waterway ran across the top of his boat and struck him on his helmet
$745,000	Settlement for a 60-year-old welder who injured his neck when he tripped and fell over baggage on the deck of a work boat in the Gulf of Mexico
$680,000	Settlement for longshoreman for failure of an offshore drilling contractor to secure a work area on the platform causing him injury
$679,466	Judgement for driller on jackup rig injured on monkey board while running 5" drill pipe in hole (two discs in neck)
$650,000	Settlement for offshore worker who had partial amputation of his foot as a result of a crushing injury to that foot which happened between a vessel and a stationary platform in the Gulf of Mexico
$630,000	Settlement for individual who fell through a manhole cover on a work barge (lower back and elbow)
$594,000	Settlement for offshore worker injured when a jack-up boat sank
$577,963	Settlement for man injured when he ran to get fire extinguisher to help a welder whose arm had a flame while cutting steel plates (back injury L5-S1)
$550,000	Settlement for offshore worker who had partial amputation of his foot as a result of him being left in the draw works of a drilling rig with the system activated
$540,000	Settlement for man injured on crew boat in seas of 20'-25' (lower back injury)
$530,000	Settlement for roustabout who fell from a wire tray while working on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico (neck and rib injuries)
$500,000	Settlement for mechanic who aggravated a previous neck injury while riding a personnel basket from a drilling rig to a work boat in the Gulf of Mexico
$500,000	Settlement for crane operator who injured his back when he slipped and fell while walking in an oil containment area on a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico
$500,000	Settlement for a surviving spouse due to a rig collapse
$500,000	Settlement for offshore worker on boat who slipped on oil on the deck that waves had washed onto it
$500,000	Settlement for man injured when he fell through grating on floor while working as a crane operator (back and right leg)
$489,000	Settlement for a pogey boat fisherman who slipped and fell in a pogey boat (back injury)
$475,000	Settlement for man who was knocked into water when he was connecting crane hook (neck & back injury)
$450,000	Settlement for 62-year-old pogey boat fisherman who sustained a neck injury as the result of being hit by a winch
$450,000	Settlement for man who was injured removing casing from supply during inclement weather when wave caught him and threw him into object on the vessel
$412,000	Settlement for a crew member who had to ride out tropical storm on jack-up boat (post traumatic stress disorder)
$400,000	Settlement for a deckhand who injured his back while performing a man overboard drill by himself to retrieve a life vest
$375,000	Settlement for man who was injured cutting bolt off of boom & boom shifted throwing him inside of boom (broken tibia & femur of right leg)
$366,890	Settlement for surviving spouse whose husband was fatally injured in an explosion
$350,000	Settlement for man who was injured when he jumped from one barge to another barge that was hooked to a boat (about 6'), and he slipped and fell (Back injury)
$325,000	Settlement for man injured when he stepped off barge onto piling - no gangway and no steps (left ankle sprain & fragments of bone removed)
$317,271	Settlement for man injured while trying to land 8,000# steel grocery box onto vessel from platform by crane (back injury)
$314,742	Settlement for man injured when he was thrown 6'-10' into a reel due to explosion of pump after beads had finished being pumped (broken right arm, two broken ribs, & fractured kidney)
$310,000	Settlement for man injured on vessel - 3' steel pry bar trying to lift 2 ties up (L4-5 disc injury - disabled)
$300,000	Settlement for man injured while pulling a fire pump with rope (back and neck pain and bulging disc)
$290,000	Settlement for man injured while picking up junk pipe from water and transferring to scrap barge (L4-5 disc)