Boating Accidents Questions & Answers
Straight answers to what people ask most. These hold wherever you were hurt — for the deadlines and rules that depend on your state, choose your state below.
What If the Boat Operator Was a Friend?
You can still have a valid claim, and pursuing it does not have to mean going after your friend personally. In most boating cases, it is the operator's or the vessel owner's insurance — a watercraft policy, or sometimes a homeowner's policy — that responds to the claim, not the person out of their own pocket.
Read the answer →Do I Have a Claim If There Was No Police Report?
Often, yes. Unlike a car crash, a boating accident is not always documented by police in the usual way, and there may be no standard police report. But a claim does not depend on one — what matters is the evidence of what happened.
Read the answer →How Much Does a Boating Accident Lawyer Cost?
We handle boating and jet ski accident claims on a contingency basis for the cases we take, which means there is no fee unless we recover for you. The fee is a percentage of the recovery, and if there is no recovery, you do not owe an attorney fee.
Read the answer →Questions about the law in your state?
Filing deadlines, fault rules, and limits on damages differ by state. Choose where you were hurt for answers under that state's law.
General information, not legal advice. Every situation is different, and the law differs by state.