Defense Base Act
Our attorneys are experienced in litigating Defense Base Act claims throughout the United States and can help ensure you receive the benefits you are entitled to. The federal Defense Base Act affords compensation benefits to those engaged in employment at:
The Defense Base Act also provides for compensation for injury or death occurring during transportation to or from a worker's place of employment where the employer or the government provides that transportation or the cost of transportation. Compensation is payable under the Act to persons engaged in employment under a contract entered into with the United States for the purpose of engaging in public work anywhere outside the continental United States, under a contract which is to be performed abroad and which is approved and financed by the federal government pursuant to the Mutual Security Act, or outside the continental United States by an American employer providing welfare or similar services for the benefit of the military forces pursuant to appropriate authorization.
At the current time, there are more U.S. - paid private contractors in Iraq than there are American troops. Figures place the number of contractors at 180,000 and the number of troops at 140,000Thousands of U.S. contractors are currently working in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of July 2007, more than 13,000 contractors have been wounded in these countries since the start of the Iraq conflict in 2003.
We take Defense Base Act claims on a contingent basis, meaning, injured workers do not pay any fee unless they are awarded benefits under the Act.
Our Defense Base Act lawyers assist injured workers residing in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, or anywhere in the United States. For more information, call us at 1-888-587-9288 or e-mail our Attorney Timothy C. Nies.
Timothy C. Nies, Esq.
Grossman Attorneys at Law
Toll-free: 888-587-9288
Tel: 561-208-5585
E-mail: timnies@ymail.com
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Our injury attorneys are experienced in Defense Base Act Litigation. The lawyers at our Defense Base Act law firm represent U.S. and foreign contractors injured in foreign countries, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, under a contract with the United States. Our counselors assist those injured overseas, including civilians working in the Middle East and those working at military bases and for the U.S. Government overseas. Our law firm routinely handles cases for injured contractors who live in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Pompano Beach and Jacksonville, Florida. The attorneys at our firm represent injured defense base workers in Hollywood, Weston, Coral Springs, Cypress Creek, Deerfield Beach and Miami, FL. We help all defense contractors working in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, but permanently live in Plantation, Sunrise, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Margate, Ft. Lauderdale, North Lauderdale, Lauderhill or Boca Raton, FL. The personal injury and workers’ compensation attorneys at our law office provide representation before the Department of Labor for those contractors, including truck drivers, security personnel, mechanics, etc. working in Iraq, but permanently living in Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Lantana, Fort Pierce, Stuart, Jupiter, North Palm Beach, Orlando or Tampa, FL.
Our lawyers, experienced in litigating Defense Base Act claims before the DOL, assist clients in Jacksonville, Fort Myers, Naples, Gainesville, Miami Lakes, Aventura, South Miami, and Orlando, FL. The attorneys and paralegals at our firm help contractors living in Key West, Clewiston, Pembroke Pines, Wellington, Pompano Beach, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale and Sunrise, FL. In addition, our defense based act lawyers litigate cases for Georgia clients living in Atlanta, Savannah, Brunswick, Augusta, Columbus, Johns Creek, Macon, Milton, Athens, Albany, and Valdosta, GA. The lawyers at our law firm represent South Carolina clients who live in Charleston, Rock Hill, Greenville, Spartanburg, Mount Pleasant, or Columbia, SC.
If you live in Alabama and have been injured working under a U.S. contract for work in Afghanistan or Iraq and live in Auburn, Decatur, Dothan or Hoover, AL, our attorneys can help you. Our defense base act lawyers help Alabama based workers who live in Tuscaloosa, Huntsville, Mobile, Huntsville Park, Montgomery, or the largest city in Alabama, Birmingham, AL, we can help make sure you receive the Defense Base Act benefits you deserve. If you have been injured overseas while working for the U.S. Government, including civilians working for companies such as Haliburten, KBR or Blackstone, and live in North Carolina, including Charlotte, NC. Our attorneys also represent North Carolina clients in Wilmington, High Point, Cary, Fayetteville, Winston-Salem, Durham, Greensboro, Raleigh and Charlotte, NC. If you have been injured in any of the camps in Iraq and Afghanistan and live in Tennessee, including Johnson City, Jackson, Murfreesboro, Clarksville, Chattanooga or Knoxville, TN, our workers compensation lawyers can help. Our attorneys represent clients in New South Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis, TN.
Our Defense Base Act Law firm has three offices in Florida to help our client contractors who live in Tallahassee, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, or Hialeah, FL. We also represent our Florida clients in DBA claims living in Saint Petersburg, Tampa, Miami and Jacksonville, FL.
Our Defense Base Act lawyers work hard to make sure our contractor/clients get the compensation they are entitled to. Our workers compensation lawyers represent workers covered by the U.S. Defense Base Act throughout the United States. Our attorney Timothy Nies and senior attorney Howard Grossman, a board-certified emeritus specialist in work comp, will work hard to make sure our client receive the medical attention, replacement of lost wages, determination of average weekly wage, and other benefits quickly. Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, approved by the Pentagon, include Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) and L-3 Communications. Other contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan include Gulf Catering Co, ECC, IPBD, Haliburton, MPRI, a unit of L-3 Communications, SEII, Service Employers International and Blackwater. American International Group (AIG) handles approximately 80% of claims for contract workers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Our workers compensation attorneys, experienced in Longshore and Harbor Workers claims, including Defense Base Act claims throughout Colorado. Our DBA attorneys help Colorado clients living in Pueblo, Fort Collins, Lakewood, Aurora, Colorado Springs, and Denver, CO. Our attorneys represent civilian workers hired by U.S. companies to work on projects overseas throughout the world. In Iraq, Afghanistan and other Middle East countries, thousands of civilian workers are employed in the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan and also provide support to the U.S. troops in these countries. Companies such as Halliburton, Bechtel, KBR, Dyncorp and others have contracts with the United States of America to provide services and therefore employ truckers, mechanics, security personnel, instructors, and others. We help workers who assist in the Afghanistan Police Program (APP) and Poppy Eradication Force (PEF) through the Afghanistan Civilian Advisory Support (ACAS), which requires work in very hazardous conditions in a very dangerous land. Our DBA law firm helps contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world employed as a mechanic, CIVPOL support, maintenance training in Oman, linguists, and helicopter pilots. In addition, our DBA attorneys help pilots, doctors, engineers, mechanics, maritime prepositioning force (MPF), maintenance and support personnel, Security Guard Force Personnel. Our attorneys represent clients in Sudan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Korea, Peru, Columbia, Pakistan, Jalalabad, Afghanistan and other Countries. Our law firm represents contractors hired to perform drug programs for the United States State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Our lawyers help American contractors employed overseas as aircraft mechanics, truck drivers, linguists, contracts manager, security officers, police, intelligence officers, oil field workers, electrical engineers, bobtails, medics, EMTs, paramedics, nurses and more.
In other areas of the world, workers are hired to build U.S. embassies and other U.S. government buildings in foreign countries, from England (Great Britain), Asia, Middle East and Asia. US military forces are in service around the world in Qatar, Oman, Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Spain, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Panama, Hungary, Guam, Columbia, and many other countries. In sum, this means that whenever and wherever civilian contractors are contract to help and assist in the mission of the United States government and who have sustained injuries while on the job. Our Defense Base Act lawyers assist employees of KBR, Halliburton, Blackwater, SEII and others who have been injured overseas and are owed compensation and medical benefits under the Defense Base Act for construction injuries, truck accidents, car accidents, RPG attacks, slip and falls, power tool injuries, assaults, explosions, fires, fights, and more unusual injuries, such as exposure to Hepatitis-C, HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases. Our lawyers also help with repetitive stress injuries such as carpal tunnel and reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and back and neck injuries, such as herniated disks. If you work for Halliburton, KBR, Blackstone, Custer Battles, Defensecurity, Northbridge Security Group, L3, Titan, Triple Canopy, Inc., Vinnell Corporation, and others. Our attorneys also represent injured longshoremen throughout the United States.
Our Defense Base Act law firms represents civilian contractors in all states, including, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, California, Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Massachussetts, Kentucky, Missouri, Michigan, Alabama, and all other states. Consultations with our lawyers are free and clients do not pay a fee unless successful. In fact, in most successful case, employers must pay the attorneys fee for claimant (contractors).
