Florida Maritime and Admiralty Law Attorney

Brain Injuries, Federal Tort Claims, Special Needs Trusts and Medicare Set-Asides, Seaman's Claims, Jones Act/Unseaworthiness Claims, Recreational Boating/Diving Injuries, Catastrophic Injuries, Career-Ending Injuries, Workers' Compensation, Wrongful Deaths, Yacht Accidents, Admiralty and Maritime Law, Cruise Ship Assaults, Cruise Ship Accidents

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: 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, seaman's claims, recreational boating injuries, wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, career-ending injuries, marine salvage, oil rig accidents, marine insurance disputes, and more.
  
  We also represent passengers and employees in personal injury cases involving cruise ship accidents, yacht accident, and cruise ship assaults.
• Federal Tort Claims Act: Our attorney has the experience and knowledge to take on 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 does not handle all 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 deserved 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 because 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 no-charge consultation concerning any of the above areas. From law offices near Pensacola, Florida, our admiralty law attorney represents clients nationwide and throughout the world who have been injured at sea. Our Pensacola area law firm serves mariners throughout the Gulf Coast in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, the Mississippi River and the Intercoastal Waterway.