Instructors and Certifying Agencies
- Dive Shop or Charter Company Negligence
- Negligence Defined
- Failure to Properly Recognize and Treat Barotrauma Injuries
- Failure to Ensure Proper Training and Experience for the Dive
- Dive Planning
- Defective Rental Equipment/Bad Air
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Improperly Provisioned, Equipped or Manned Vessel
- Instructors and Certifying Agencies
- Agency Negligence
- Medical Issues
- Medically Fit to Dive
- Appropriateness of Dive Tables
- Neurological Examinations
- Dysbaric Osteonecrosis
- Law and Diving
- Products Liability Law – Basic Principles
- The Strict Liability Standard
- The Negligence Standard
- Defenses to Claims of Products Liability
- Products Liability and Diving Equipment
- Technical Diving
- The Law Never Rests
- What is the Jones Act?
- Who is a Seaman?
- Comparison of Rights Under the Jones Act and State Workers’ Compensation Law
- Jones Act Death Benefits
- Control of the Vessel
- Liability Insurance
- Extras
- Cancellation Due to Weather or Rough Seas
- Selection of the Dive Site
- Anticipated Dive Profiles
- Overview of the Law
- Language and Form of Release
- Consent of the Parties Must be Freely Given
- Negligence v. Gross Negligence
- What is the Bottom Line?