Like most other personal injury claims, your boating injury claim will be rooted in the legal theory of negligence. In other words, you must prove the other person owed you a duty of care, violated that duty, and that violation led directly to your injuries.
Someone’s injury doesn’t necessarily mean you should bring a lawsuit. Someone must have been injured because another neglected a standard duty of care. While each case is unique, generally, boating accidents involving negligence include one of the following:
Your boat crashes into another.
You’re injured when you hit another boat’s wake.
Your boat hits a wave.
You hit a submerged object, such as a rock.