Louisiana Offshore Injury Lawyers
Oil Well Explosions and Oil Rig Injuries
Whether an accident occurs on an offshore oil rig or a land-based oil well, the attorneys at Dodson, Hooks & Frederick, APLC, have the experience and the resources to successfully pursue a personal injury claim. Our law firm has a physician on staff to quickly provide an initial evaluation of your case, and we obtain medical records up front to make certain that we offer a plaintiff a realistic initial assessment.
The defendant in your personal injury lawsuit may be a multi-national conglomerate with rooms full of lawyers. Our law firm has experience and success in litigation against these types of defendants.
Please contact our law firm if you were injured in an accident on an oil field, offshore drilling platform, floating oil rig or other natural gas or oilfield exploration site. Our attorneys have had success representing plaintiffs with the following types of oil field injuries:
- Burns or scalding
- Electrical accident injuries leading to electrocution
- Fractures or bone crush due to explosion
- Spinal cord injuries
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Wrongful death
Property Damage and Investor Compensation Attorneys
One only has to consider the massive property damage caused by the BP oil spill to recognize that oil exploration at sea is a costly and complicated proposition involving multiple parties. At Dodson, Hooks & Frederick, APLC, we have experience in international admiralty and maritime law, as well as insurance defense, personal injury litigation, Jones Act injury compensation and environmental law.
We represent either the plaintiff or the defendant in property damage litigation including:
- Defective pipeline parts
- Objects falling onto gas lines or stuck in pipelines
- Gas line ruptures and explosions (property damage and potential oilfield injury)
- Collisions on oil rigs and platforms (property damage and potential oil rig injury)
- Ships, vessels, workers or machinery hitting high-pressure lines (property damage and potential injuries)
Representative case: Clients v. Blow Out Preventer, Perforation Company, and Operator: Our law firm successfully prosecuted multiple corporations who were responsible for the blow out of a land-based oil rig when a blow out preventer was installed incorrectly and the perforation company failed to properly follow procedures leading to millions of dollars worth of property damages, financial loss to investors and neighbors experiencing loss to crawfish farming ponds. The case was settled for more than a million dollars.
Justice at Home and Abroad
Our Baton Rouge oil well/oil rig injury attorneys at Dodson, Hooks, & Frederick will consider handling serious cases that arise in the areas of personal injury, maritime wage claims, toxic tort, class action, property damage, environmental damage, commercial litigation, wrongful death and other serious personal injury claims. For more information about our services and how we may assist you, please call 225-372-1666 locally or 800-644-0633 | 800-569-2195 toll free, or send our attorneys an e-mail.
