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The Fowler White Boggs admiralty and maritime lawyers have been involved and represented clients over the years in a full range of services concerning virtually all types of maritime matters relative to commercial vessels, pleasure vessels, shipyards, maritime employment and marine insurance. More specifically, our lawyers have experience in ship collision cases, defense of major personal injury and wrongful death claims, marine product liability claims, insurance coverage issues, claims arising under environmental protection laws, immigration and customs litigation, salvage litigation, treasure salvage litigation, cargo claims, disputes over letters of credit, charter party dispute, Jones Act claims, bills of lading claims, transportation fraud claims, claims involving yacht purchases, construction and sales, vessel financing litigation, vessel foreclosures, and maritime bankruptcy litigation. Additionally, the lawyers have been involved in recreational water sport activity litigation, para-sailing litigation, personal watercraft operations and litigation involved in scuba diving support activities and accidents.
Fowler White Boggs’s Admiralty and Maritime Group also handle various matters in the business realm. The attorneys in the group have extensive experience in yacht purchase, construction and sales as well as the purchase, construction and sales of commercial vessels; vessel financing; vessel foreclosures; maritime bankruptcies; and shipyard repair contracts and shipyard service agreements. Additionally, the members of this department have experience in environmental protection issues, immigration issues, customs issues, vessel chartering and other maritime contracts.
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One year after oil spill, deadline looms
Carl R. Nelson, shareholder in the Firm’s Commercial Property, Insurance and Health Care Litigation Practice and Board Certified in Admiralty and Maritime Law by The Florida Bar, recently appeared on Tampa Fox 13 to discuss the oil spill a year later and BP's deadline for oil claims.
Carl Nelson speaks with Tampa Bay Fox 13
Carl R. Nelson, shareholder in the Firm’s Insurance, Healthcare and Class Action Litigation Practice and Board Certified in Admiralty and Maritime Law by The Florida Bar, recently appeared on Tampa Fox 13 to discuss whether a recent Florida Supreme Court ruling that commercial fishermen can sue a company that discharged pollutants into Tampa Bay for lost income and profits sets a precedent for future economic damage lawsuits by Floridians against BP for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Carl Nelson discusses the impact of the oil spill
Carl R. Nelson, shareholder in the Firm’s Insurance, Healthcare and Class Action Litigation Practice and Board Certified in Admiralty and Maritime Law by The Florida Bar, recently appeared on CNBC’s Power Lunch to discuss the impact of the oil spill. In the segment, Mr. Nelson discusses who is liable and by how much – in what is fast becoming one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters.
