Charles.Herd

About Charles Herd

With over three decades of experience, Charles Herd concentrates on Jones Act and maritime-related claims, maritime products liability cases and maritime-related commercial matters. He also handles and resolves insurance coverage issues, commercial truck and vehicle wrecks and other serious injury or damage claims. Charles takes a caring and compassionate approach to legal representation. He enjoys meeting and getting to know his clients and their families and has a strong desire to understand their needs in order to help resolve their legal claims in a favorable manner. He and his legal team carefully guide clients throughout the legal process so that they never feel alone.

Strangers and Saviors at Sea: Fire Aboard M/V Min Jiang Kou and the Those Who Came to Help

630 miles from the nearest shore, an engine-room fire drove [...]

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Rescuers with the Fewest Remedies: Cumulative Brain Injury and a Warning for Every Mariner

A new investigation finds that the elite crews who operate [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:21:16-04:00August 5th, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on Rescuers with the Fewest Remedies: Cumulative Brain Injury and a Warning for Every Mariner

The Right to Pass? What Manila’s Warning Means for the Hormuz Strait, the Red Sea, and the Crews Who Actually Sail

Southeast Asia's foreign ministers spent a week in Manila discussing [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:04:50-04:00August 4th, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on The Right to Pass? What Manila’s Warning Means for the Hormuz Strait, the Red Sea, and the Crews Who Actually Sail

No One at the Bow: A Tug Captain’s Guilty Plea and the Oldest Duty on the Water

A Miami tug captain has admitted that a blocked view, [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:04:33-04:00August 3rd, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on No One at the Bow: A Tug Captain’s Guilty Plea and the Oldest Duty on the Water

Laying the Keel: A $150 Billion Bet on American Shipbuilding — and the Crews the Law Was Built to Protect

South Korea and the United States have opened a new [...]

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Toll Gates at Both Ends: The Widening Gulf War, Two Chokepoints, and the Rights of the Crews Sent Through Them

Washington has sanctioned Iran’s Strait of Hormuz “extortion network,” Tehran [...]

By |2026-07-31T18:12:39-04:00July 31st, 2026|Firm Update|Comments Off on Toll Gates at Both Ends: The Widening Gulf War, Two Chokepoints, and the Rights of the Crews Sent Through Them
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