Recreational Boating Accidents

Recreational boating accidents cause thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths every year, including jet ski injuries, water skiing, yachting, sailing and tubing. These activates can cause a variety of accidents that can create expensive, even debilitating or fatal injuries for its victims.

Due to user error, alcohol or drug intoxication, poorly marked waterways, or the negligence of other boaters, recreational boats can collide with other watercraft, leading to significant injury for the boat’s occupants. Minor injuries like broken bones and bruises can result, but more serious injuries related to brain damage, spinal cord injury or even death due to drowning or other causes.

Most recreational boating injury victims assume that if they are injured on the water, their local personal injury attorney will be able to help. However, most bodies of water including Big Bear Lake, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Powell, Lake Havasu and Lake Tahoe, are not governed by the state but rather by the General Maritime Law - which means you need an experienced Maritime attorney.

Maritime law is a highly specialized area of the law that most general practice personal injury attorneys are not familiar with. An experienced Maritime personal injury attorney will be able to navigate the law appropriately and give you the best legal representation.

Contact a Recreational Boating Accidents and Injuries Attorney

At the Law Offices of Charles D. Naylor, our attorneys have more than 100 years of combined experience practicing maritime law. If you were injured on the water, anywhere in the United States, in a recreational boating accident, we can provide you the most qualified legal representation.

To arrange a free consultation, please call us today toll-free at 888-440-5829 or fill out our ONLINE FORM.