Rick Lesser announces another important legal victory involving the dive industry.
Less than two years after receiving an award for one of the Top Defense Verdicts in the Country from the National Law Journal , Attorney Rick Lesser has been involved in another multimillion dollar dive case- this time as the lawyer for a PADI instructor critically injured in a dive accident in Hawaii.
While leading his DSD group in the waters off Kauai, Instructor Matthew Isham and one of his students were run over by a large sailing catamaran, resulting in the loss of Isham's leg above the knee and rendering the student's dominant arm permanently disabled. Photos taken at the time of the incident showed the captain of Isham's vessel had failed to raise any dive flag, and it was also determined later that the company did not even own the large Alpha flag required by Coast Guard regulations to be displayed during diving operations.
The judgement entered for Isham of $2,975,000 is believed to be the largest single award to a dive instructor in any published case in the country.
Additional details may be found in an article on dive boat insurance appearing in this month's Dive Center Business magazine, and will also be posted shortly on Lesser's www.divelaw.com website.
As found here http://www.divenewswire.com/NewsITems.aspx?newsID=7997
Anyone knows more about this case? AFAIK this came to conclusion in June this year.
Less than two years after receiving an award for one of the Top Defense Verdicts in the Country from the National Law Journal , Attorney Rick Lesser has been involved in another multimillion dollar dive case- this time as the lawyer for a PADI instructor critically injured in a dive accident in Hawaii.
While leading his DSD group in the waters off Kauai, Instructor Matthew Isham and one of his students were run over by a large sailing catamaran, resulting in the loss of Isham's leg above the knee and rendering the student's dominant arm permanently disabled. Photos taken at the time of the incident showed the captain of Isham's vessel had failed to raise any dive flag, and it was also determined later that the company did not even own the large Alpha flag required by Coast Guard regulations to be displayed during diving operations.
The judgement entered for Isham of $2,975,000 is believed to be the largest single award to a dive instructor in any published case in the country.
Additional details may be found in an article on dive boat insurance appearing in this month's Dive Center Business magazine, and will also be posted shortly on Lesser's www.divelaw.com website.
As found here http://www.divenewswire.com/NewsITems.aspx?newsID=7997
Anyone knows more about this case? AFAIK this came to conclusion in June this year.