Louisiana Personal Injury

Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Explosion Injury Attorneys in Louisiana: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to OCSLA, Jones Act and General Maritime Law Claims on the Outer Continental Shelf, The Vermilion Block 380 Blast Where Four Documented Prior Accidents Since 2000 Including a 2007 Maintenance Fire Are the Punitive-Damages Engine, We Pursue Platform Operators Like Mariner Energy and the Maintenance Contractors Behind Offshore Explosions, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Lockout/Tagout Records and Gas-Detection System Logs Before the Platform Is Repaired, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Maritime Injury Recovery ($2M+ Recovered), Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Platform You Were Working On Exploded — Your Rights Under Maritime Law If you are reading this from a hospital bed, or from the kitchen table of a family that just got the call nobody on the Gulf ever wants to get, you need to know something right now: the law that protects you is not the law most people think it is. You are not in the workers’ compensation system. You are not capped at a benefit schedule. You are on the Outer Continental Shelf, and a different, older, and far more powerful body of federal law applies — and it was written for exactly this moment. When a production platform ninety miles off the Louisiana coast erupts in fire while thirteen people are aboard, the company that operated it has a plan already running. Within hours, their claims representatives are on the phone — friendly, concerned, and building a record that protects the company, not you. Within days, the physical evidence on that platform is being photographed, catalogued, and in some cases repaired, modified, or dismantled. And the thirteen workers who survived are dispersing — to different homes, different employers, different memories of what happened in…

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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

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

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 10, 2026

PFAS Forever Chemicals in 105 of 107 Southeast Louisiana Tap Water Samples — Toxic Exposure & Environmental Contamination Attorneys, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Seven-Parish Mississippi River Corridor from St. James to Plaquemines, We Pursue the PFAS Manufacturers, Industrial Dischargers and Water System Operators Behind the Contamination, Lead in 67% and Arsenic in 70% of Tested Homes with Salt Exceeding EPA Thresholds in Every Low-River Sample, Bioaccumulative Forever Chemicals Linked to Liver Damage, Thyroid Disease and Reduced Vaccine Response in Children, We Move to Secure Blood Serum PFAS Testing and Historical Water Utility Records Before the Preservation Clock Expires, Safe Drinking Water Act and Louisiana Environmental Quality Act Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Drinking Water Has “Forever Chemicals” in It — What That Means for Your Family in Southeast Louisiana You just found out that the water coming out of your tap — the water you have been drinking, cooking with, making baby formula with, showering in — contains chemicals that do not break down. Not in the environment. Not in your body. A residential water quality study tested 107 homes across seven Southeast Louisiana parishes and found PFAS in 105 of them. Perfluorooctanoic acid appeared in 97.2 percent of the samples. Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid showed up in 72.9 percent. Arsenic was in 70 percent. Lead was in 67 percent. Every single sample taken during low Mississippi River water levels exceeded the EPA’s recommended salt thresholds. One sample in Plaquemines Parish measured 43 percent above the pending federal limit for PFAS. If you live in St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, or Plaquemines Parish, this is your kitchen table right now. You are looking at a glass of water and wondering whether it is safe to drink. You are wondering what this means for your children, whose developing immune systems the science says are especially vulnerable.…

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Jul 10, 2026

PFAS Forever-Chemical Contamination from the Smitty’s Supply Petrochemical Fire in Roseland, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Florida Parishes Corridor, We Pursue the Facility Operators and the Firefighting-Foam Manufacturers Behind 24 PFAS Compounds Measured at 13,000 Parts Per Trillion, 3,250 Times the EPA Drinking-Water Standard, We Move to Secure the LDEQ Lab Reports, Private Well Samples and Blood-Testing Baselines Before the Contamination Plume Migrates Further With Every Rainfall, the Hired Treatment System Physically Cannot Remove PFAS Yet Millions of Gallons Were Permitted Into the Tangipahoa River Flowing to Lake Pontchartrain, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Environmental Cases, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period May Already Be Running From the August Fire While Contra Non Valentem May Suspend Prescription for Latent PFAS Exposure, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Smitty’s Supply Fire Dumped “Forever Chemicals” Into Your Water at 3,250 Times the EPA’s Safe Limit — Here Is What That Means for Your Family If you live near Roseland, or along the Tangipahoa River, or anywhere between the Smitty’s Supply plant and Lake Pontchartrain, you are reading this because you heard the words “forever chemicals” and felt your stomach drop. You may have seen the fire burn for two weeks from your porch. You may have tubed in that river last summer. You may have a private well you have been drinking from for years. You may have just learned that the state released lab reports showing 24 different PFAS compounds in stormwater coming off that destroyed facility — including one measured at 13,000 parts per trillion, which is 3,250 times higher than the level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is safe in drinking water. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take toxic exposure and environmental contamination cases in Louisiana. This page is not a news article. It is the straight, detailed truth about what happened at the Smitty’s Supply site in Tangipahoa Parish, what the contamination means for your family’s health, what…

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Jul 9, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability Attorneys: The $230M New Orleans Archdiocese Bankruptcy Settlement for 600+ Survivors of Decades of Concealed Clergy Abuse, Louisiana’s Revival Statute That Reopened Time-Barred Claims Upheld by the State Supreme Court, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the Archdiocese and the Institutional Structures That Shielded Known Abusers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Institution That Spent $50M in Legal Fees Fighting Survivors, We Secure the Clergy Personnel Files and Assignment Histories Before Protective Orders Seal Them, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Clergy Abuse Settlement: What $230 Million Means for Survivors in Louisiana If you are reading this, you may be one of the hundreds of survivors who voted — or one of the people who did not know a claim could still be filed. You may be the family member of someone who carried the weight for decades and never told a living soul. You may be watching a bankruptcy proceeding in a federal courthouse in New Orleans and wondering whether the number on the screen — $230 million — has anything to do with what was taken from you. It does. And it does not. Because the settlement is real, the vote was near-unanimous, and the confirmation hearing is coming. And because no dollar figure answers the question you actually carry: what happened to me was wrong, and does anyone with the power to say so out loud have the courage to say it? The near-unanimous vote — 489 clergy abuse claimants in favor, only two opposed, a 99.63% creditor approval — is the closest thing to institutional validation that the civil system produces. Hundreds of people who were abused as children by clergy in New Orleans looked…

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Jul 9, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability Attorneys — The New Orleans Archdiocese’s $305M Bankruptcy Settlement for 600 Survivors After Louisiana’s Revival Statute Broke the Church’s Prescription Defense, Among Them Linda Lee Stonebreaker, Molested at Age Four — Attorney911 Holds Religious Institutions and Their Insurers Behind Decades of Negligent Supervision, Reassignment of Known Abusers and Concealment, We Secure the Clergy Personnel Files and Assignment Records Before They Are Sealed in the Bankruptcy, Travelers Covered the Archdiocese 1973–1989 During the Peak Abuse Period, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Louisiana Imposes No Damages Cap on Sexual Abuse Claims, the Revival Window’s Status Determines Whether New Claims Can Still Be Filed — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Clergy Abuse Settlement: $305 Million for 600 Survivors — What It Means and What Comes Next You have been carrying this for a long time. Maybe decades. Maybe you were a child in a parish school in Orleans Parish, or an altar server at a church across the river in Jefferson, or a kid in a Catholic youth group in St. Tammany — and the person you were taught to trust most in the world used that trust to destroy part of you. You may have told no one. You may have tried to tell someone and been shut down. You may have spent years believing it was your fault, or that no one would believe you, or that the law had already closed the door because it happened too long ago. Then you read that roughly 600 survivors of clergy sexual abuse in New Orleans are in line to receive $305 million. That the archdiocese — the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States, founded in 1793, anchored by the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter that has stood through two centuries of Louisiana history — filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2020 because the weight…

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