Posts by Raley & Raley, P.C.

Coastal tugboat deckhand and Georgia native Danny Williams, 32, was killed offshore of Tybee Island while doing his job in July, 2016. Danny was a part of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP, begun in 2015), which includes dredging the Savannah River to a depth of 47 feet and extending the channel an additional 18.5…

A ship-to-shore crane injured a stevedore aboard a vessel docked in navigable waters. Raley & Raley filed the injured worker’s lawsuit in State Court. The Defendant crane owner “removed” the case to Federal Court, thereby attempting to modify the worker’s choice of the court in which to litigate the case. The worker responded that the removal…

American Maritime Cases has published District Judge Pannell’s Order in the March, 2013 edition. The cite for the case is 2013 A.M.C. 761.

On November 13, 2010, Laura Zekoll was killed while working as a crewmember aboard the RULE 62 when the vessel’s owner, Richard Ross, attempted to enter an unlit, unmarked, coral-shrouded cut at North Bar Channel, Abaco, Bahamas — at night. After over two years of litigation, Raley & Raley has secured a favorable settlement for…

Since 1986, in Georgia and South Carolina, we’ve represented injured mariners, including: LONGSHOREMEN, DREDGE CREW, AND TUG CREW. We take pride in working for these injured workers to achieve the optimal financial recovery allowed by the law. What sets us apart? For starters, we live and work where our Clients do. Like the workers who make…