Titusville Boating Accident Lawyer

Andrew Pickett Law is a top Titusville boating accident law firm that handles injury cases on the Indian River Lagoon and throughout North Brevard County for victims who need help getting medical treatment and financial recovery. Andrew Pickett grew up in Brevard County on the Indian River Lagoon, and he has been on this water since he was a kid.

If you were just hurt on the water here, the scene ended in a way no car crash does. Nobody handed you an insurance card, because nobody had to carry one. You may not know whether anyone was supposed to call an officer, or which agency even answers out on the water. Maybe the boat that hit you was borrowed, and the person at the wheel kept saying it was not theirs. Underneath all of it, you are replaying your own last few seconds at the helm.

Start with your ticket, because a printed ticket can cut a three-year deadline down to a single year. The missing medical coverage, the fee and the first call come next. The fault rules, the records and the statute citations sit further down.

Find Your Ticket Before You Count on Three Years

You usually get three years to file a boat case. A printed ticket can cut the three years down to a single year.

If you were hurt on a cruise ship or a charter boat, the ticket sets your deadline and picks your courthouse. Ticket deadlines run as short as one year, and almost nobody reads the paper that sets them.

Dig out the booking confirmation, the emailed receipt or the paper ticket today, and read the section about claims and lawsuits. Port Canaveral sits about 35 minutes from Titusville, so a cruise injury is a local event with a national rulebook.

The water you were on matters too. Where you were hurt decides which deadline you get, and a lawyer can answer the deadline question from the location alone.

Nothing Pays Your First Medical Bills Out Here

The coverage that pays your first medical bills after a car crash doesn’t exist on the water. Nobody handed you an insurance card at the scene, because Florida required nobody to carry insurance on a boat.

Your health insurance is the policy that carries the hospital while a claim gets built. There’s no 14-day treatment deadline out here, so a delay in seeing a doctor doesn’t cost you a layer of coverage the way it would on the road.

Florida requires no liability insurance on a boat at all, so the operator who hit you may carry nothing. The owner who lent out the boat is often off the hook as well.

A rented boat is the exception people miss. Coverage usually stands behind a rental, so tell us early if the other boat came from a livery.

A Boating Accident Lawyer Paid Only From the Recovery

Andrew Pickett Law works on a contingency fee only. We take a minority percentage of whatever we recover for you, and we charge no fee at all if we recover nothing. You’ll never write us a check to get started, and you’ll never see an hourly bill.

Florida law caps a contingency percentage on a sliding scale, and the cap steps up once the defense files its formal answer to a lawsuit. We back the Bar’s cap with a commitment of our own. We work your case to its maximum value, and you’re out of pocket for nothing while the case runs. We pay the filing fees, we order the expert reports, and we chase the federal records, and no bill reaches you while you’re still healing.

Ask any firm you talk to, including us, who pays the advanced costs if you lose. Firms answer the question differently, so get the answer in writing before you sign anything.

Boat Claims You Can Settle Alone, Once You Know the Real Deadline

Some boat claims settle without a lawyer. If the other operator carried insurance, admitted fault, and the insurer paid your bills without an argument, take the offer and keep every dollar.

The claims that need help start with a gap. No insurance stands behind the boat, a ticket has already shortened your deadline, or the boat’s owner has sent a letter that starts a six-month clock running against you.

You don’t have to spot a shortened deadline on your own. Call us, tell us where you were hurt and who owned the boat, and we’ll tell you which deadline you’re actually under.

The call and the review cost nothing, and nobody signs anything to have the conversation. Even if you settle the claim yourself, you settle it knowing the real deadline rather than the one you assumed.

We’ll Call You Before You Have to Call Us

Andrew Pickett prosecuted cases in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit before he represented injured people, and he has worked for years in the Brevard courtrooms a boating case would be tried in. He trained at the Trial Lawyers College, and he tries injury cases to verdict. An insurance carrier prices a file differently when the lawyer who built it has taken cases to a jury.

Clients tell us the same thing in their reviews: they knew what was happening in their case. We’ll tell you the next step and roughly when it’s coming, and when something changes, we’ll call before you have to.

Tell Us the Water and the Boat, and We’ll Name Your Deadline

A first call is a conversation, not a commitment. You tell us where you were hurt and what kind of boat was involved, and we’ll tell you which deadline governs your claim.

Bring your ticket or booking confirmation if a cruise or a charter was involved, and the name of the boat or its owner. You can call with no paperwork at all.

If Andrew Pickett Law takes your case, our fee comes out of a recovery and nothing comes out of your pocket while the case runs. If the claim doesn’t need a lawyer, we’ll tell you and you can take the offer.

A Boat Case Usually Gets Three Years to File, Not Two

A filing deadline you get wrong ends the case before anyone reads the facts. For an accident on the water, the deadline is usually three years from the day it happened.¹ Every other injury page on this site gives you two years. Florida’s own deadline for a negligence case has been two years since the law changed in 2023.² The extra year on a boat case comes from which body of law governs the water you were on.

The water you were on decides which deadline you get

The Indian River Lagoon is not legally a lake. It carries the Intracoastal Waterway, the marked channel that links the coastal waters of the eastern United States into one boating route. Water that forms part of a route like that is what the law calls navigable water. An accident on navigable water is governed by federal maritime law rather than by the state rules that cover injuries on land. Maritime law is the body of rules built for ships and shipping.

The lagoon, the channel inside it, the Canaveral Barge Canal and the ocean beyond all count. Nearly every boating accident here is a maritime case, whether or not anyone aboard ever thought of it that way. Maritime law gives an injured person three years to sue.¹ Plan around the shorter number until a lawyer confirms which law governs your water, because the two-year assumption can only ever make you early. Florida retired the four-year figure still circulating online for road cases in 2023, and it was never the boating number at all.²

A maritime case does not mean a courtroom far from home

Hearing that a federal body of law governs your case sounds like it means a federal courthouse in another city. It does not. A rule as old as the country’s first Judiciary Act lets an injured person bring a maritime claim in an ordinary state court. Lawyers call it the saving to suitors clause.³ You can file a lagoon collision here in Brevard County, and a judge still decides it under the water’s own rules. The courthouse you file in does not change your deadline. The law that governs your water does.

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Being Partly at Fault Probably Does Not End Your Claim Here

Most people who call after a boat accident are carrying a private worry that they caused part of it. On the water, being partly at fault reduces what you get back, and it probably does not erase it. The other injury pages on this site say the opposite, because crashes on land do follow the harsher rule.

Florida’s rule for ordinary negligence has a cliff in it. A person found more than 50 percent responsible for their own injury gets nothing at all.⁴ That cutoff went into the state’s statutes in 2023. It governs the car, truck and motorcycle pages on this site, because those crashes happen on land.

Maritime law never adopted a cutoff. Admiralty courts split the blame by percentage under a rule called pure comparative fault. What you get back shrinks by your share of the blame, and it survives at any share.⁵ A boater found 60 percent responsible for a channel collision still gets 40 percent of their damages. A driver with that same 60 percent on US 1 would take home nothing.

The word probably is in this section on purpose, and it stays because it is the honest word. Florida’s cutoff statute does not exclude boating cases by name. A principle keeps that cutoff out of a boating case, not a line in a rulebook. A state may not narrow a right that federal maritime law grants, and the federal rule has been pure comparative fault for decades.⁵ Expect the other side’s insurer to argue for the cutoff anyway. When your share of the blame is large, both sides fight hard over which rule applies.

The person who hit you may not have been allowed to drive that boat

Florida issues no boating license, but it does require a boating safety education card. The rule reaches further than most boaters think. Anyone born on or after January 1, 1988 must carry that card, with a photo ID, to run a boat of ten horsepower or more.⁶ In 2026 that means every operator up to age 38. A widely repeated claim that anyone over 25 is let off has never been the law.

Running a boat without the card does not decide a civil case by itself. It counts as evidence of carelessness, and it fits a pattern the state’s own numbers describe. Of the operators involved in fatal accidents, 68 percent had no formal boater education at all.⁷ We check early whether the person who hit you was lawfully at the wheel.

A Cruise or Charter Ticket Can Cut Your Deadline to Six Months

The three-year deadline does not survive contact with a ticket. When your injury happened on a cruise ship or a charter boat, a printed ticket sets your deadline. The paper almost nobody reads also picks the courthouse. Port Canaveral sits about 35 minutes from Titusville, so cruise injuries are local injuries here. The port moved 8.6 million passenger movements in the 2025 fiscal year and homeports 18 ships.⁸

Royal Caribbean’s ticket requires written notice of an injury claim within six months and a lawsuit within one year. Carnival’s requires notice within 185 days, suit within one year, and service of the lawsuit within 120 days.⁹ Missing a date printed on a ticket ends a claim just as dead as missing one printed in a statute.

The ticket names your courthouse too, and two contracts sold at the same port point in opposite directions. Disney’s sends injury suits to Brevard County or to the federal court’s Orlando division, close to home. Carnival’s and Royal Caribbean’s send them to Miami, roughly 200 miles south.⁹ Those contracts can send neighbors hurt the same week to courthouses at opposite ends of the state.

A six-passenger charter or dive boat is a different animal from a cruise ship, and federal law protects its passengers more. A covered small passenger vessel may not cut a passenger’s notice period or time to sue below two years.¹⁰ A seagoing ship may cut them to six months and one year. A charter passenger who assumes the cruise-ship rule gives away a year the law reserved for them. A missed notice deadline also does not end a claim on its own. The claim lives where the owner both knew about the injury and was not harmed by the delay, where there was a satisfactory reason the notice could not be given, or where the owner never objected to its absence.

A death far from shore follows a harsher federal rule. Beyond three nautical miles, a law called the Death on the High Seas Act limits recovery to the money the death cost the family. You recover nothing for grief or lost companionship.¹¹ A ship leaving Port Canaveral can cross that line in under fifteen minutes. A death case has to pin down where the vessel was when it happened.

The Owner of the Boat That Hit You May Be Off the Hook

Almost everyone gets the borrowed-boat question backwards, because the answer reverses the car rule. Lend your car to a friend in Florida and the law holds you responsible for what your friend does with it. A car counts as a thing so dangerous that its owner answers for whoever drives it. Lawyers call that rule the dangerous instrumentality doctrine. Lend your boat, stay home, and the law generally leaves you out of it.

The reversal sits inside a single statute. Section 327.32 declares a vessel a dangerous instrumentality too, and it requires whoever operates one to use the highest degree of care. That standard is stricter than the ordinary care the road demands. The same section then limits liability to the operator in immediate charge of the vessel, and expressly not the owner. The owner is on the hook only if the owner was driving or was aboard when it happened.¹² The statute switches on the doctrine that makes a car’s owner liable, then switches it off in the same sentence.

Both halves of the statute matter to your case. The raised standard works for you, because a moment of inattention or a missing lookout gets judged against the highest degree of care. Operator inattention and improper lookout are the two leading accident causes in the state’s own data.⁷ The owner shield works against you, because it can leave you facing a borrower with nothing behind them.

Nothing Pays Your First Medical Bills After a Boat Accident

The hospital bill is the first thing that frightens people, and on the water no insurance steps in automatically to take it. After a car crash, Florida drivers lean on a coverage called personal injury protection, PIP for short. PIP pays the first medical bills from the driver’s own auto policy, no matter who caused the crash. The treatment has to start within 14 days. None of that applies to a boat.

The statute that creates PIP defines a motor vehicle as a self-propelled vehicle with four or more wheels, and a boat is not one.¹³ There is no PIP on the water. There is no 14-day treatment deadline out here, and no $10,000 in automatic benefits waiting for you.

Your health insurance is the coverage that pays first here, so use it without hesitation. See a doctor as soon as you can, even though no statute forces the visit. The medical record built in the first few weeks still decides what your claim can later prove.

The Boater Who Hit You May Carry No Insurance at All

Florida requires no liability insurance to own or run a boat for pleasure. The state sets no minimum coverage and no penalty for carrying nothing. The operator who hit you may have no policy behind them at all.¹⁴ That gap shapes a boat case before any other fact does. Before you ask what the claim is worth, ask whether anything exists to collect it from. A perfect case against a person with no insurance and no assets produces a judgment that never turns into money.

Your own policies can answer the collection question, and you can check them tonight without hiring anyone. Look at your boat policy, if you carry one, for uninsured-boater coverage. That coverage stands in and pays when the at-fault operator has nothing. Look next at your homeowner’s policy, where boating coverage sometimes lives. If that coverage is there, your strongest early claim may run through your own insurer rather than through a law firm. We would rather tell you that on this page than after a consultation.

The honest edge of this section belongs here too. Suppose the operator was uninsured and owns nothing, the boat was not rented, and your own policies carry no uninsured-boater coverage. No amount of lawyering makes a source of recovery appear in that situation. If that is where you are, we will say so in the first conversation rather than after months of filings. Telling you early is the only version of that news that helps you.

If the Boat Was Rented, There Is Coverage Behind It by Law

A rented boat changes the picture completely. Rental coverage is the one insurance Florida does require on the water. An outfit that rents boats has a legal name, a livery. A livery must carry at least $500,000 of liability coverage per person and $1,000,000 per event.¹⁵ The rental company is often the only defendant with money in a lagoon collision, so check the company’s own paperwork next.

The same statute builds a piece of evidence and then schedules its destruction. A livery must instruct every renter on how the boat handles and what to do in an emergency, before the rental starts. It must keep the record of that instruction for 90 days. A livery also may not rent a powered boat to anyone under 18. It may not rent to an operator without the boater card paperwork.¹⁵ Ninety days is shorter than any filing deadline on this page. A written letter asking the rental company to keep its records has to go out within weeks. Routine housekeeping erases what the renter was or was not told.

The money rules that govern every settlement in this county reach the water too. A Brevard hospital can file a claim on your settlement with the Clerk of the Circuit Court. It has ten days from your discharge to do it, and that claim is called a hospital lien.¹⁶ A lien has to be cleared before the money is safe to accept. A jury also sees what your medical care actually cost, rather than the larger numbers printed on the bills.¹⁷

The Titusville personal injury page covers how you clear a lien and how settlement money works.

Nobody Is Saving the Proof of Your Accident for You

A crash on US 1 leaves skid marks, cameras and a police report behind it. The lagoon keeps none of that. A boat case leaves you a report somebody had to make and a file an officer had to build. The rest is business records, free to be thrown out on schedule. Below is what exists right now, who holds it, and how long you have.

The law required someone to report your accident, and it may not have happened

The duties after a boat accident sit in one statute, and they start at the scene. An operator involved in an accident must give whatever help is practical to anyone hurt. That operator must also hand over a name, an address and the boat’s identifying number in writing. It goes to anyone hurt and to the owner of any damaged property.¹⁸

Reporting is a separate duty with its own triggers. The triggers are a death, a disappearance, an injury beyond what immediate first aid can handle, or damage that looks like $2,000 or more. An operator has to report any of those without delay. The report goes by the quickest means available to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the FWC for short. It can also go to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, or to the police department of the city where it happened.¹⁸

Leaving the scene without giving help, information or a report is a crime on a sliding scale. The offenses run from a second-degree misdemeanor, where only property was damaged, up to a first-degree felony where someone died. A willful violation causing death carries a four-year mandatory minimum sentence.¹⁸ If you left the scene in shock and are only now learning the duty existed, talk to a lawyer before you do anything else. How a late report gets made matters.

The FWC, not the highway patrol, investigates boating accidents here. The file its officers build, with photographs, measurements and witness statements, is the record your civil case leans on. Requesting it works the way collecting a crash report does on the Titusville page. The FWC stands where the police agency would.

What counts as speeding here can change at the edge of the channel

Around Titusville, the speed limit on the water comes from a manatee protection rule rather than from a traffic law. The Indian River west of the Intracoastal channel is a Slow Speed, minimum wake zone all year, from the FEC railroad bridge south to the SR 402 bridge. In the channel, the 25 mile per hour zone runs down only as far as a line 1,200 feet south of that railroad bridge; south of that line the channel carries no manatee zone at all.¹⁹ The Canaveral Barge Canal is Slow Speed year-round. The zones by the power plants drop to Idle Speed, or close to entry entirely, from November 15 through March 31.¹⁹

The edge of the marked channel is where the rule changes. Inside it, north of the railroad bridge, the limit is 25 miles per hour. Outside it, the whole width of the river is Slow Speed, minimum wake. That is a rule with no number attached, which means off plane and settled in the water. A boat length or two decides which rule you were under, and your case can turn on where each boat sat next to those markers. A zone binds you only where a regulatory sign marks it, and that rule cuts both ways. A missing sign can excuse an operator, and a sign in plain view can sink a defense. Photograph the markers, the signs and each boat’s position while the scene is fresh.

The lagoon itself explains the county’s accident pattern. It runs 156 miles and averages about four feet deep, with the dredged channel at ten to twelve feet. The state’s leading accident type is collision with a fixed object, 243 of 694 reportable accidents in 2025.²⁰ On this water the fixed object is usually the bottom, a spoil island or a channel marker. Brevard County recorded 19 reportable accidents and four deaths that year, eleventh among Florida’s counties.⁷ A case built here starts with the chart, the depth and the markers, because that is where the defense will start.

A commercial vessel already created a federal file about your accident

When the boat that hurt you was working for hire, the evidence you need already exists. Federal rules made someone create it before you ever asked, so your job is to keep it rather than build it. A commercial operator must notify the nearest Coast Guard unit immediately after a serious casualty. For vessels working out of Port Canaveral that unit is Marine Safety Detachment Canaveral, under Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville. The commercial operator files a written casualty report on Form CG-2692 within five days, and must preserve the vessel’s voyage records and logs.²¹

After a serious marine incident the employer must also test the crew. Every crew member directly involved gets an alcohol test within two hours, eight at the outer limit, and gives drug specimens within 32 hours.²¹ A sworn federal report and toxicology on the crew therefore already exist in your case. A preservation letter and the right federal records requests are what keep them in it.

Sending the boat’s owner a letter starts a six-month clock against them

Every other clock on this page runs against you. The clock in this section runs against the boat’s owner, and you are the one who starts it. A written notice telling an owner you have a claim has a name, the demand letter. Sending one is a legal event rather than an opening courtesy.

Federal law lets a boat’s owner ask a court to cap every claim at what the boat was worth after the accident. A boat that burned, sank or was wrecked may be worth close to nothing. The same law gives the owner only six months from receiving a claimant’s written notice to file that limitation case.²² Once the owner posts the boat’s value with the court as security, every other claim against the owner stops. Your case waits while a federal judge decides the limitation question.

Sending a demand letter therefore starts the only clock in the case that runs in your favor. It also hands the owner the trigger to pull the whole dispute into a limitation proceeding. We send that letter when the case is ready for it, not in the first angry week.

Frequently Asked Questions About Boating Accident Claims

I left the scene of a boating accident. How much trouble am I in?

How much trouble depends on what happened behind you. Leaving after an accident with only property damage is a second-degree misdemeanor. The offenses climb from there to a first-degree felony where someone died, with a four-year mandatory minimum sentence for a willful violation causing death.¹⁸ Talk to a lawyer before you do anything else. A late report you choose to make reads very differently from one the officers turn up on their own.

Can my teenager drive the boat if an adult is on board?

The arrangement is legal only under conditions most families have never read. The supervising person must be at least 18 years old. That person must hold a boater card, or be legally exempt. The adult must also be, in the statute’s own words, attendant to the operation of the vessel and responsible for its safe operation.⁶ A card in someone’s pocket at the other end of the boat satisfies none of that. An arrangement that breaks the rule becomes evidence of carelessness in the civil case that follows.

The boat that hit us sank. Is there anything left to collect?

A sunken boat matters less than the policies behind it. The owner can ask a federal court to cap all claims at the boat’s value after the accident. For a sunk hull that value can be close to nothing. That cap applies only if the owner wins a court fight called a limitation case, filed within six months of your written notice.²² The practical search for money runs through insurance instead. It runs through the operator’s own policies, the rental company’s required coverage if the boat was hired, and any uninsured-boater coverage on your own policy.

Was the other boater drunk, and how would I ever prove it?

Boating under the influence is a crime at the same 0.08 level as drunk driving on the road. Causing serious bodily injury while impaired is a felony. BUI manslaughter carries a four-year mandatory minimum sentence.²³ The FWC’s criminal investigation produces the proof, from breath results to witness statements, and your civil case gets to use that file. On a commercial vessel the proof can exist even without an arrest. Alcohol testing within two hours and drug specimens within 32 hours are mandatory there after a serious incident.²¹

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References

1. 46 U.S.C. § 30106 — three-year limitations period for maritime torts.
2. Fla. Stat. § 95.11(5)(a) — two-year limitations period for negligence, as amended by ch. 2023-15.
3. 28 U.S.C. § 1333 — admiralty jurisdiction and the saving to suitors clause.
4. Fla. Stat. § 768.81(6) — modified comparative negligence; recovery barred above 50% fault.
5. Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn, 346 U.S. 406 (1953); United States v. Reliable Transfer Co., 421 U.S. 397 (1975) — pure comparative fault in admiralty; a state may not narrow a substantive maritime right.
6. Fla. Stat. § 327.395 — boating safety education card required of operators born on or after January 1, 1988 for vessels of 10+ horsepower; card and photo ID aboard; supervision exemption conditions (18 or older, carded or exempt, attendant to and responsible for safe operation).
7. FWC 2025 Boating Accident Statistical Report — contributing causes (operator inattention 149, no proper lookout 104, operator inexperience 92, machinery failure 59, excessive speed 57); 68% of operators in fatal accidents with no formal boater education; Brevard County 19 reportable accidents and 4 deaths, 11th statewide.
8. Port Canaveral FY2025 cruise statistics — 8.6M passenger movements, 18 homeport ships.
9. Cruise ticket contracts: Royal Caribbean cl. 10.b (6-month notice, 1-year suit, S.D. Fla. Miami); Carnival cl. 14(a) (185-day notice, 1-year suit, 120-day service); cl. 14(c) (S.D. Fla., Miami); Disney cl. 10 & 12 (6-month notice, 1-year suit, venue Brevard County or M.D. Fla. Orlando Division).
10. 46 U.S.C. § 30526 — minimum notice and suit periods a passenger ticket may impose: six months / one year for seagoing vessels, two years / two years for covered small passenger vessels; a missed notice deadline is not an automatic bar where the owner had knowledge and was not prejudiced, or where there was a satisfactory reason for the failure, or where the owner did not object.
11. 46 U.S.C. §§ 30302–30303 — Death on the High Seas Act; applies beyond three nautical miles; recovery limited to pecuniary loss.
12. Fla. Stat. § 327.32 — vessels declared dangerous instrumentalities; operator’s highest degree of care; liability confined to the operator in immediate charge and not the owner unless the owner is the operator or is present in the vessel.
13. Fla. Stat. § 627.732 — PIP’s definition of a motor vehicle as a self-propelled vehicle with four or more wheels; no PIP for vessels.
14. Fla. Stat. § 627.732 and FWC boating regulations — no compulsory liability insurance and no minimum coverage for recreational vessels; the FWC’s regulations are silent on any insurance requirement.
15. Fla. Stat. § 327.54 — livery duties: $500,000 per person / $1,000,000 per event liability coverage; pre-rental instruction with records kept 90 days; no rental of powered vessels to persons under 18; § 327.395 documentation required.
16. Brevard County Code §§ 54-66 to 54-71 — liens for hospital care; ten-day filing with the Clerk of the Circuit Court.
17. Fla. Stat. § 768.0427 — evidence of medical damages; amounts paid rather than billed.
18. Fla. Stat. § 327.30 — duties of vessel operators involved in an accident: render assistance, exchange of name, address and vessel identification in writing; reporting without delay to FWC, sheriff, or municipal police on death, disappearance, injury beyond immediate first aid, or $2,000+ damage; § 327.30(5) leaving-the-scene criminal tiers, including the four-year mandatory minimum for a willful violation causing death.
19. Fla. Admin. Code R. 68C-22.006 — Brevard County manatee protection zones: Indian River west of the ICW channel between the FEC railroad bridge and the SR 402 bridge Slow Speed year-round; ICW channel 25 mph in the segments designated under (2)(e), which in this area ends 1,200 feet south of the FEC railroad bridge; Canaveral Barge Canal Slow Speed year-round; power-plant zones Idle Speed / No Entry Nov 15 – Mar 31; zones effective only where regulatory signage is posted. Authority: Fla. Stat. § 379.2431(2).
20. Indian River Lagoon reference data — 156 miles long, average depth ~4 ft, ICW channel dredged to 10–12 ft; FWC 2025 BASR — collision with a fixed object the leading accident type, 243 of 694 (35%).
21. 46 CFR subparts 4.05 and 4.06 — immediate notice to the nearest Coast Guard unit; written Form CG-2692 within five days; preservation of voyage records; mandatory post-incident alcohol testing within 2 hours (8 outer limit) and drug specimen collection within 32 hours. MSD Canaveral sits under USCG Sector Jacksonville.
22. 46 U.S.C. § 30529 — limitation of liability action; six-month deadline from a claimant’s written notice of claim; cessation of all claims and proceedings on posting of security.
23. Fla. Stat. § 327.35 — boating under the influence at 0.08; serious bodily injury a third-degree felony; BUI manslaughter with a four-year mandatory minimum.

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3 months ago

(Translated by Google) Excellent service. I was recommended by my daughter-in-law, and the beginning has been wonderful. They asked all the necessary questions and were incredibly quick at the start of the process. I am very grateful for their attention. (Original) Excelente trato ,fui recomendado por mi nuera y la verdad el inicio a sido maravilloso, hicieron las preguntas necesarias y una rapidez increíble en el comienzo del proceso , les agradezco mucho esta atención

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Caitlin Cheatham

3 months ago

Amazing experience, they got me the best settlement I could’ve asked for. Always responded quickly and kept me in the loop! Highly recommend

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Heidi Bushing

3 months ago

The team at Andrew Pickett is amazing. They helped me with two accidents and have been very attentive and communicative.

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pebbs jai

3 months ago

I highly recommend this law office. Special thank you to Allison W. for answering all my questions and concerns. All staff were very helpful, professional and pleasant. They also give back to the community so if you are looking for a well knowledgeable law firm this is it!! Mr Andrew Pickett I appreciate you.

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Krissy Green

3 months ago

Thank you all for your support I appreciate so much you guys are awesome

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Stephanie Mortier

4 months ago

I absolutely love this law firm , down to the absolute best communication, and the follow up calls with details . Thank you guys !

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Kimmy Ware-Simmons

4 months ago

A special thanks to this wonderful team! I’ve been truly blessed to be represented by Andrew Pickett Law. All my questions have been attentively addressed and explained perfectly in a way I am fully able to understand. This Lawfirm treats everyone with respect and like family. 10/10 review and definitely recommend!

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Stephanie Mortier

4 months ago

Thank you , she was very helpful and friendly .

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Steve Ryland

4 months ago

Andrew and his team provided outstanding legal representation with a high level of professionalism, responsiveness, and attention to detail. He communicated clearly throughout the process and delivered a result we were very satisfied with. I truly appreciate his expertise and would highly recommend him to anyone in need of strong, reliable legal counsel.

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christian leon

4 months ago

Working with Tiffany Whitehouse, Vonda, and Lauren at Andrew Pickett Law Firm was an amazing experience for me. They were really professional, attentive, and committed to my case from beginning to end. Their diligence and genuine concern for achieving the greatest result for me were what truly stood out. I genuinely felt like I was in good hands the entire time because of their dedication and teamwork, which made a difficult situation much easier to face. I got the best outcomes I could have imagined because of their hard work and knowledge. I am incredibly appreciative and would heartily suggest their team to anyone in need of legal assistance.

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Erin Mclachlan

4 months ago

My experience is based on 2 settlements so far, still pending another case and 1 of the already settled cases M&M took but didn't want to keep after stringing me along for 4 months. So just choose Andrew Pickett Law, don't waste time with another injury attorney. Tiffany Whitehouse is great, she was confident in my cases, kept me informed and very accommodating. We didn't even have to go to court for those 2 cases. And because I had already trusted them with 2 cases, I also gave them a third case which settled quickly. My only regret, I just wish I had known about them sooner. Thanks for everything! I have already recommended my friends and clients and will continue.

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Carlos Mangual

4 months ago

Tiffany Whitehouse has been a tremendous help to me through out my whole process majorly because of her communication she’s always one phone call or text away and really gives me comfort to have any of my questions or worries answered so quickly

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Hannah Dorris

4 months ago

If I could give more than 5 stars I would. I cannot say enough amazing things about Tiffany Whitehouse and her entire team. From the very beginning, I felt genuinely cared for, supported, and prioritized throughout my entire experience. Tiffany is an absolute powerhouse her knowledge, confidence, and attention to detail truly set her apart from any attorney I’ve ever worked with. She knows her craft inside and out, and you can feel that level of expertise in every interaction. What really stood out to me was how responsive and efficient everyone was. Communication was always clear and timely, and I was never left wondering about the status of my case. Tiffany and her paralegal, Vonda, worked seamlessly together and made everything feel organized and stress-free. Vonda was incredibly kind, attentive, and always made sure I had what I needed. They both went above and beyond in ways that made a stressful situation feel manageable. I also want to recognize the admin team, especially Lauren and Hailey. They were so welcoming, helpful, and professional every time I interacted with them. It’s clear that this entire office operates with a high level of care, compassion, and dedication to their clients. Another thing that truly stood out to me was how thorough and patient everyone was when answering my questions. No matter how many I had, they took the time to explain everything in detail and made sure I fully understood even if it took 20 minutes. That level of patience and dedication meant so much and made me feel confident every step of the way. What meant the most to me is that they didn’t treat me like just another case they truly cared about me as a person. They checked in regularly, made sure I felt supported, and consistently went the extra mile. That kind of genuine compassion is rare to find. If you’re looking for a legal team that is not only highly skilled but also truly invested in you, I wholeheartedly recommend Andrew Pickett Law. They exceeded all of my expectations and I am beyond grateful for everything they’ve done for me. Thank you all SO incredibly much!

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