Florida Maritime and Admiralty Law Attorney

Brain Injury Cases, Federal Tort Claims, Special Needs Trusts, Medical Malpractice, and More

At the Law Offices of John W. Merting, P.A., our lawyer has more than 35 years of experience helping clients with:

• Admiralty and Maritime Law : As the first board certified maritime and admiralty law attorney in the entire Florida Panhandle, John Merting can handle all types of cases involving offshore injuries, Brain Injuries , Jones Act or unseaworthiness claims, recreational boating injuries, wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, career-ending injuries, marine salvage, oil rig accidents, marine insurance disputes, and more.

• Federal Tort Claims Act : Our attorney has the experience and knowledge to take on certain governmental agencies pursuant to provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act. He has engaged in everything from personal injury suits against the government to medical negligence claims against military and veterans’ hospitals.

• Workers’ Compensation : While our firm will not accept certain types of workers’ compensation claims, we are especially well-suited to take claims involving the maritime industry, including longshore and harbor work.

• Special Needs Trusts and Medicare Set-Asides : Personal injury attorneys are gradually learning the importance of special needs trusts, Medicare set-asides, straight settlement trusts, etc. Without these planning tools, clients can lose government benefits after receiving a settlement. John Merting, through early involvement, has helped dozens of attorneys and clients preserve and maximize several layers of long term financial protection for seriously injured individuals and their families.

• Medical Malpractice: In the past, our lawyer has represented dozens of individuals and their families who have been injured or have died as a result of medical malpractice. Now John Merting restricts his medical malpractice work to federal cases, but can directly refer clients to other experienced law firms with which Mr. Merting has established long-term relationships for state medical malpractice lawsuits.

• Legal Malpractice: John Merting restricts his work in legal malpractice to representing clients whose original lawyers have failed in federal tort claims or maritime law. Note that any legal malpractice claim must involve more than just receiving a “bad” result -- the lawyer must have committed negligence or misconduct.

Please contact the maritime injury attorney at the Law Offices of John W. Merting, P.A. for a consultation at no charge concerning any of the above areas. From law offices near Pensacola, Florida, our admiralty law attorney assists clients throughout the world, with many cases centering in the international ports of Florida, Alabama, the Mississippi River, Louisiana, Texas, and other areas of the United States.