If you are a contractor who has been injured on the job while working overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Syria or on any military base across the world, your case is covered by the Defense Base Act which is an extension of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. At the Law Offices of Gillis, […]
If you are a contractor who has been injured on the job while working overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan or on any military base across the world, your case is covered by the Defense Base Act which is an extension of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. At the Law Offices of Gillis, Mermell &
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Contact our qualified DBA lawyers today if you have any questions about your compensation, medical care, choice of physician, average weekly wage, compensation rate, notice requirement, statute of limitations, informal conference, final hearing, administrative law judge, claims examiner or anything else related to your DBA claim. At Gillis, Mermell & Pacheco, P.A., we have over
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Gillis, Mermell & Pacheco, P.A. recently convinced AIG, one of the world’s richest and most powerful insurance companies, to come down to our Miami office to conduct a mass mediation of 10 DBA cases. Gillis, Mermell & Pacheco, P.A. was successful in settling all 10 out of the 10 mediations scheduled. What does this mean
Clifford R. Mermell, Esq. has handled Defense Base Act cases for the past 22 years. He has helped residents of Florida win big cases for injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Mermell has helped over 2,000 injured workers obtain valuable compensation and medical benefits. Although his main office is in Miami, he has traveled throughout
Did you know that under the Defense Base Act, there is a schedule for calculating benefits to certain body parts? It seems somewhat arbitrary and unfair in our opinion to assign a certain number of weeks of disability compensation for injuries to certain body parts. However, that is exactly what the Defense Base Act provides
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The Defense Base Act (“DBA”) provides workers’ comp benefits to civilian employees and private military contractors injured while working outside the U.S. on bases or working for a company under a U.S. Government contract for national defense or for public works. The majority of claims today result from injuries sustained while working overseas in Afghanistan