Pool Drowning · Wrongful Death · Catastrophic Aquatic Injury
We all fear the call that a loved one has drowned.
If that call has come, you don’t need just any injury lawyer. You need the firm that has tried these cases to verdict — and won. Tell us what happened. Your free, confidential consultation starts here.
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You found the right firm
Aquatic injury isn’t one of the things we do.
It’s the only thing we do.
Most law firms will take a drowning case. Very few have ever tried one to a jury. We litigate water tragedies by their exact mechanism — a faulty pool drain, an absent lifeguard, an unfenced spa, a missing barrier on a worksite — because the difference between a settlement and justice is knowing precisely what failed, and proving it.
How we help
Where water turns to tragedy, we know the case
Decades of focus across every kind of aquatic injury and death — on land and at sea.
Pool & Spa Drowning
Residential, hotel, Airbnb, and public pools — unfenced barriers, absent supervision, and code violations that cost lives.
Explore →Suction Entrapment
Defective drains and missing anti-entrapment covers under the VGB Act — the mechanism behind our $104M verdict.
Explore →Negligent Security
Preventable harm on poorly secured premises — including the largest negligent-security verdict of its kind.
Explore →Wrongful Death
When negligence takes a life, we hold the responsible parties accountable — so the loss is not in vain.
Explore →Maritime & Jones Act
Offshore rigs, harbors, and commercial diving — protecting maritime workers catastrophically injured at sea.
Explore →Cruise Ship Injury
Drownings, overboard incidents, and water-excursion negligence on cruise lines and their contractors.
Explore →Why a specialist
A drowning is rarely just an accident.
Behind almost every water tragedy is a decision someone made — to skip the fence, ignore the recall, cut the lifeguard, or sell the defective part. We don’t accept the defense’s favorite story. We find the failure, and we make it answer to a jury.
- Verdicts, not just settlements. Our flagship results are jury awards after trial — defendants and insurers know we go the distance.
- We sit on the councils. Michael Haggard advises the National Drowning Prevention Alliance — we help write the safety standards we later enforce in court.
- Litigated by mechanism. Suction entrapment, the VGB Act, improper CPR, missing barriers — we know exactly what to prove, and how.
- You keep your hometown lawyer. We partner with trusted local counsel in your state.
- You gain the aquatic-injury authority. We bring decades of focused trial experience to your case.
- One team, coast to coast. From Florida to all 50 states — wherever the tragedy happened, we can help.
National reach, local counsel
Wherever it happened, we can be there.
Headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, we represent families nationwide in association with local counsel. You get the comfort of a lawyer in your community and the firepower of a firm that wrote the book on aquatic injury.
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The attorney
Compassionate in the consult. Relentless at trial.
Michael Haggard has spent his career standing between grieving families and the corporations and insurers who would rather call a preventable death “a tragic accident.” He is the only plaintiff’s personal-injury attorney to secure three separate $100 million-plus verdicts for individual clients — and a tireless advocate for the water-safety laws that prevent the next tragedy.
Advocacy & prevention
“Our results speak to the experience and determination with which we litigate every case. But the real victory is when a case changes the law — so that another family never has to make the call you made.” — Michael A. Haggard, Managing Partner
Time and again, our cases have become catalysts for stronger pool-safety regulation and legislation. We don’t just seek compensation — we pursue the kind of accountability that prevents the next drowning.
For referring attorneys
Have an aquatic case outside your wheelhouse?
We co-counsel with attorneys nationwide on drowning, suction-entrapment, premises, and maritime matters. You stay involved and protect your client relationship; we bring the trial experience these cases demand. Referral fees honored consistent with applicable bar rules.
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Talk to us now. We care.
Tell us what happened. There is no fee unless we win, and your conversation with us is always confidential. Prefer to talk now? Call (833) 652-7600.