Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Explosion & Critical Burn Attorneys: Four Critically Burned, Two Missing After a Cutting-Torch Ignition on a Gulf Production Platform 25 Miles Off Grand Isle, Louisiana — Attorney911 Pursues the Platform Operators and Hot-Work Contractors Behind the Blast, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Gas-Monitoring Data and BSEE Investigation Files Before the Fire-Origin Area Is Repaired Over, OCSLA Extends Louisiana Law and the Jones Act to the Outer Continental Shelf, General Maritime Punitive Damages for Willful Disregard of Hot-Work Safety, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $2M+ Maritime Settlement and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Oil Platform Explosion: Your Legal Rights After an Offshore Fire If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that platform — or you were. The fire came on a November morning twenty-five miles off Grand Isle, while workers were using a cutting torch, and four people were flown to a hospital with critical burns and two vanished into the Gulf. You may be sitting in a burn-unit waiting room right now, or you may be the family of someone who did not come home, and a voice on the phone — friendly, calm, saying they just want to “help” — is already asking you questions. Before you answer that voice, read this page. Everything the operator was required to do before that torch was lit, every record that proves whether they did it, every dollar the law says this is worth, and every deadline that is already running against your family is in here — and the first thing you need to hear is that this explosion was not an accident. It was a failure of a safety system that federal law requires on every platform on the Outer Continental Shelf, and the proof of that…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Platform Explosion & Wrongful Death Near Grand Isle, Louisiana: Attorney911 Pursues Black Elk Energy and the Contractors Behind the Hot-Work Blast That Killed One Worker, Left Two Missing, and Severely Burned Four When a Torch Cut Into Oil-Filled Pipe on a Production Platform Shut Down Since Mid-August, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Gas-Testing Records and Shutdown Purge Documentation Before the Platform Is Repaired, OCSLA, LHWCA and DOHSA Claims on the Outer Continental Shelf, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Grand Isle, Louisiana Offshore Platform Explosion Claims: Your Rights After the Black Elk Energy Platform Blast If you are reading this page because someone you love was on that platform on November 16, 2012 — or because you were one of the twenty-two people aboard when the fire broke out — you are already behind. Not because you did anything wrong, but because the evidence that proves what really happened on that rig is already disappearing, and the companies that bear responsibility are already building their defense. We are writing this page to give you what the companies will not: the truth about what the law entitles you to, what the evidence clock is doing right now, and what the first seventy-two hours must look like if your family’s right to hold someone accountable is going to survive. Here is what we know: a production platform operated by Black Elk Energy, sitting in roughly fifty-six feet of water about seventeen miles south-southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, exploded and burned when maintenance workers employed by Grand Isle Shipyard used a torch to cut into a pipe that contained oil. Twenty-two people were on board. Eleven were evacuated. Nine were taken to…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore FPSO Explosion & Wrongful Death Attorneys: Three Killed, Six Missing, Ten Injured in Gas-Leak Blast Aboard the Cidade de Sao Mateus FPSO in the Camarupim Field, 75 km Northeast of Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime Death and Catastrophic-Injury Claims, We Pursue Platform Operator Petrobras and Vessel Owner BW Offshore Behind Deferred Maintenance and Gas-Handling System Failures That Endangered 74 Workers Aboard, General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness Doctrine and Jones Act Jurisdictional Analysis for American Seamen, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Disasters, We Secure VDR Data, Gas Detection Logs, and Maintenance Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When an Offshore Platform Explodes: What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this page, someone you love was aboard the Cidade de Sao Mateus when it detonated — or you were there yourself, and you are trying to understand what just happened to your life. You may be in a hospital in Vitoria. You may be at a kitchen table in Espirito Santo, or in Houston, or in Oslo, waiting for a phone call that tells you whether your husband, your father, your son is alive. You may have already been told by a company representative — someone from Petrobras or BW Offshore — that Brazilian labor law is your only option, that you should sign papers, that the investigation will take time and you should be patient. Stop. Read this first. Then call us. Here is what the company representative did not tell you: a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel — an FPSO — is a vessel under maritime law. If anyone aboard that platform was an American citizen with seaman status, a completely different legal system opens up, one that includes the right to a jury trial and the full measure of…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Rig Explosion & Fire on the Abkatun Permanente Platform in the Gulf of Mexico — 4 Killed, 45 Injured, Workers Forced Into the Sea to Escape the Blaze — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime Wrongful-Death and Catastrophic Injury Claims, We Pursue the Platform Operator Pemex and the Contractor Layers Behind the Blast, We Secure Fire-Origin Analysis, Platform Surveillance Footage and Gas-Detection System Records Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Jones Act and Death on the High Seas Act Claims Where US Jurisdiction Applies, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Including a $2M+ Maritime Settlement and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When an Offshore Platform Explodes: Your Maritime Law Rights After an Oil Rig Fire or Industrial Disaster You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to read anything. A platform burned. Someone you love did not come home, or came home changed in ways that will not heal on their own. You may not even know yet which country’s law applies to what happened, which company is responsible, or whether you have any legal rights at all. That uncertainty is the first thing we want to address, because it is the thing that keeps families from acting while the evidence is still alive. On April 1, 2015, an explosion and fire tore through the Abkatun Permanente processing platform in the Campeche Sound, a dense cluster of interconnected oil production and processing infrastructure in the southern Gulf of Mexico, operated by Petróleos Mexicanos — Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company. Four workers were killed. Forty-five were injured. Three hundred were evacuated, some by helicopter, some by jumping into shallow waters to escape a fire they could not outrun. Eight fireboats fought the blaze. Among the dead was a contractor employee of Cotemar, a Mexican oil services company — a…

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Jul 15, 2026

Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion & Maritime Burn-Injury Attorneys: Seven Crew Hospitalized with Burns and Blast Wounds, One Missing After a Natural Gas Storage Transfer Platform Erupts Two Miles Off Kenner in Jefferson Parish — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Admiralty Jurisdiction on Navigable Waters, We Pursue the Platform Operator, the Chemical Supplier and the Contractor Stack Behind the Blast, General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness and Jones Act Claims, Maintenance and Cure Rights That Attach Immediately Regardless of Fault, No Statutory Damage Caps Under Maritime Law, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Energy-Industry Claims Machine Values and Denies Burn and Blast Cases, We Move to Preserve the Fire Cause-and-Origin Debris, Cleaning Chemical Containers and Safety Data Sheets, Platform Maintenance Logs and Coast Guard Investigation File Before the Active Fire and Weathering Destroy the Evidence, the Louisiana Prescriptive Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Kenner, Jefferson Parish: Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion — Your Maritime Rights After the Fire If you are reading this from a hospital waiting room — or from a kitchen table where a chair is empty and a phone will not ring — we need you to understand one thing before anything else. The fire on Lake Pontchartrain was not just burning a platform. It was burning the evidence of what happened to your family. And while you sat in that waiting room, the company that owned that platform already had its lawyers on the phone. That is not paranoia. That is how these cases work. Within hours of an explosion, the platform operator’s insurance team is setting reserves, crafting narratives, and deciding which records to preserve and which to let disappear. The fire that was still burning on that Monday morning in October 2017 was consuming the physical evidence — the failed tank, the chemical containers, the ignition source — in real time. Every hour that passed without a formal preservation demand was an hour the defense was given for free. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore and maritime injury cases, and we are…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Wrongful Death: Two Workers Killed on a Shell Platform in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Investigating — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to OCSLA Claims, We Pursue Shell and the Corporate Parent Stack Behind Offshore Fatalities Where High-Pressure Equipment, H2S Exposure and Confined-Space Hazards Kill Workers Miles From Trauma Care, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Secure the Coast Guard Investigation Report, BSEE Incident Records, Platform Alarm Logs and SEMS Records Before Electronic Data Overwrites and Witness Memories Fade on the Crew-Rotation Cycle, OCSLA-Borrowed State Wrongful-Death and Survival Law with LHWCA Death Benefits Regardless of Fault, the Firm Has Recovered a $2M+ Maritime Settlement and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Shell Oil Platform Deaths in the Gulf of Mexico: What Your Family Needs to Know About Offshore Wrongful Death Claims You just got the worst phone call of your life. Someone on the other end told you there was an incident on a platform in the Gulf — that your loved one is gone. You may not even know what platform, what company, what happened, or what comes next. The helicopter that carried your loved one off the platform did not carry answers. The Coast Guard is investigating. A company representative has already called. And none of it makes sense yet. We are the trial team at Attorney911. We handle offshore injury and wrongful death cases, and we are writing this page for you — the person sitting at a kitchen table at three in the morning, staring at a phone, trying to understand what rights your family has when someone dies on an oil platform in federal waters. The answer is more complicated than any land-based case, because the law that governs the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer Continental Shelf is a web of overlapping federal statutes that most lawyers never touch. We are going to untangle that web for…

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Jul 15, 2026

Shell Auger Platform Lifeboat Drill Fatalities, Two Dead Offshore Louisiana — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime Wrongful-Death Claims Under DOHSA, the Jones Act, OCSLA & General Maritime Law, We Pursue Shell, the Lifeboat and Davit Manufacturers, and the Maintenance Contractors Behind the Lifeboat Launch System Failure, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Offshore Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Lifeboat, Davit System and Platform CCTV Before the 30-Day Overwrite Erases the Evidence, DOHSA Limits Death Recovery to Pecuniary Losses But Product Liability Against Equipment Manufacturers Can Recover What DOHSA Bars, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Settlements and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Offshore Lifeboat Drill Deaths: Your Rights Under Federal Maritime Law When a Safety Drill Turns Fatal Your husband, your father, your son went to work on a Sunday morning in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and did not come home. He was not killed by a blowout or a fire or a storm. He was killed during a mandatory safety drill — the very exercise the company ran to prove it could protect him. That is the cruelest part of what happened at the Shell Auger Tension Leg Platform, 214 miles south of New Orleans, and it is the fact that will sit in your chest for the rest of your life. He did everything the company asked. He followed the rules. And the rules killed him. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana offshore injury and wrongful death cases, working with local counsel in the Eastern District of Louisiana where the majority of Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf cases are filed. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means…

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Jul 15, 2026

Deepwater Horizon Offshore Explosion & Blowout Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Gulf of Mexico Waters, 11 Workers Killed and 17 Injured, Four Critically Burned, When a Well Blowout During Cementing Overwhelmed Every Safety System 50 Miles Off the Louisiana Coast, We Pursue the Well Operators, Rig Owners and Cementing Contractors Under the Jones Act, the Death on the High Seas Act and the Maritime Unseaworthiness Doctrine, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Blowout Preventer Data, Cementing Records and Gas-Detection Logs Before They Are Lost on a Burning Rig, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2M+ in Maritime Injury Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Offshore Oil Rig Explosions: What Maritime Law Gives You After a Blowout The night a blowout turns a drilling rig into a pillar of flame, the first thing that fails is the well. The second thing that fails is the plan. And the third thing that fails — the thing nobody told you about — is the assumption that working 50 miles off the Louisiana coast means the same legal rules as working on land. They do not. Offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico operate under a legal framework that is older, stranger, and in some critical ways more powerful than the workers’ compensation system that covers most American workplaces. But it is also a framework the companies understand far better than the workers do — and that gap in knowledge is the first thing the defense exploits. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle offshore and maritime injury cases in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast. This page is the education we wish every offshore worker and every family of every offshore worker had before the company’s investigator arrived with a clipboard and a recorded-statement form. Everything here is legal information, not legal…

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Jul 15, 2026

Five Killed in Offshore Oil Platform Fire & Maritime Wrongful Death — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime-JonesAct-National Offshore Cases, We Pursue the Platform Operators and Contractors Behind Process-Safety Failures and Inadequate Fire Suppression, Under the Jones Act, the Death on the High Seas Act and General Maritime Law, We Secure the Maintenance Records and Safety-Inspection Logs Before They Disappear, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and a $2M+ Maritime Settlement — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

National Offshore Platform Fire Deaths — Five Killed in Mexico Oil Rig Blaze: What Federal Maritime Law Says About Your Family’s Rights You are reading this at the worst moment of your life. Five people died on that platform. One of them was yours. The phone call came — from a coworker, from a company representative, from a consulate official — and the words are still settling into a place in your chest that hasn’t stopped aching since. You do not know what happened out there yet. You do not know who was at fault, what failed, what was ignored. You do know that someone who left for work is not coming home, and that a company whose name you may or may not know is already controlling the narrative, the evidence, and the timeline. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle maritime injury and wrongful-death cases, and this page exists for one reason: to give you — the spouse, the child, the parent, the sibling — the information the company hopes you never find. What law protects your family. What evidence is already disappearing. What the company is already doing. What your claim is actually worth.…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Fire & Wrongful Death — Attorney911 and Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice for the Nohoch Alfa Platform, Cantarell Field, Gulf of Mexico Fire That Killed Two and Left One Missing, We Pursue the Platform Operators and the Contractors Behind the Blaze, $2M+ Maritime Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Catastrophes, We Move to Preserve the Fire Detection Logs and Gas Detection System Data Before the Platform’s Rotating Cycle Overwrites Them, We Investigate Pemex’s Documented Pattern of Prior Offshore Fires for Punitive Damages, Severe Burns Over One-Third of the Body Demand Investigation of Every US Nexus Under the Jones Act and General Maritime Law — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Nohoch Alfa Platform Fire: What Happened, What the Law Actually Says, and What Families Must Do Now You are reading this because someone you love was on the Nohoch Alfa platform on July 7, 2023, when fire tore through a Pemex installation in the Cantarell Field of the Gulf of Mexico. Two workers are dead. One is missing. At least one survivor was burned over more than a third of his body and flown to a hospital in Mexico City. You may be sitting in a waiting room, or at a kitchen table at 2 a.m., or holding a phone with a call you have not yet made. We are writing this for you — the person who needs to know, right now, what is true about the legal road ahead and what is not. The first thing you need to hear is also the hardest: where this fire happened changes everything about what legal remedies exist. The Nohoch Alfa platform sits in Mexican territorial waters, in the Bay of Campeche, operated by Petróleos Mexicanos — Pemex — Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company. That fact does not close every door. But it means the first question is not “how much…

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