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Recent News About Towing
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Towing company sued after worker injures knee
More than two years ago, Lee Rachal hurt his knee while serving on a vessel owned by Moran Towing of Texas, Inc. Claiming the vessel was unseaworthy, Rachal is suing the towing company. -
This Just In: Jefferson County
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Family claims asbestos caused man's cancer
From 1977 to 1985, Ray Fontenot Sr. worked as an oil handler for the Sabine Towing and Transportation Company. Fontenot, who had a 40 pack-year smoking history, died of lung cancer in 2002. -
Benzene blamed for seaman's lymphoma
From 1969 to 1999, Larry Areceneaux was a seaman on various vessels sailing the Gulf of Mexico. -
Legally Speaking: A Swing and a Miss on Personal Responsibility
Everyone copes with the grief of losing a loved one in different ways. On the road to what will hopefully be acceptance and hope, we go through stages of shock, denial, guilt, anger, and sadness over such loss. Some people, however, add another stage that Elisabeth Kubler-Ross would never have imagined: frivolous litigation. -
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Seaman cites Jones Act in injury case
A man who fell off a pickup truck while unloading cargo and landed on the deck of a ship is invoking the Jones Act and suing his employers.