Fox Galvin has represented numerous marine companies, including towing companies, barge owners, dry dock and loading dock operators, casino boats, stevedore operations, underwriters, brokers, and fleeting and harbor services. Marine lawyers at Fox Galvin have over 40 years of experience successfully defending marine interests in many jurisdictions, including state and federal courts.
Fox Galvin attorneys are frequently called to board vessels or go to an accident site, often in the middle of the night, to promptly investigate events and gather information. All of our marine lawyers have TWIC cards. We have tried many Jones Act cases, limitation of liability actions, 905(b)/longshore cases, Maritime insurance disputes, and Coast Guard licensure actions.
Fox Galvin currently represents major barge lines in defense of their Jones Act and other personal injury litigation in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and elsewhere throughout the central United States. We have defended and prosecuted various multi-million dollar property damage cases resulting from navigational issues, cargo shipments/handling, and flooding.
Although marine trial defense work is a major component of our practice at Fox Galvin, the multi-disciplinary trial work of our attorneys affords us a breadth of experience and contacts not normally found with lawyers who practice only maritime law. For example, our defense of the health care industry allows us to become acquainted with many physicians and health care providers who practice in the very medical areas where our Jones Act injury cases are focused. Further, in our defense of a multi-million dollar claim against a major casino interest, our knowledge of product liability law enables us to locate and select experts based on prior experience in defending product liability actions.
The environmental practice at Fox Galvin has supported the firm’s leadership position as the “go to” firm on USEPA Vessel General Permit issues.
We are committed to providing superior quality service and a vigorous defense to our marine clientele, while always being mindful of opportunities to provide this service in an efficient and economical way. The quality of our defense work was noted in a front page article published in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, where Fox Galvin attorneys successfully defended a marine warehouse operator using the Act of God defense in relationship to the Great Flood of 1993.