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Co-Counsel on Aquatic Injury Cases

For Referring Attorneys

Co-Counsel on Aquatic Injury Cases

Have a drowning, suction-entrapment, premises, or maritime case outside your wheelhouse? Bring in the firm that wrote the book — and keep your client relationship.

Michael A. Haggard, Managing Partner
Michael A. HaggardManaging Partner

Why refer

Aquatic-injury cases are unforgiving

They demand specialized knowledge of pool engineering, federal safety law, and the defense playbook — and the willingness to try the case to verdict when settlement talks fall short. Referring the case protects your client and your client relationship.

Three $100M+ verdicts

The only plaintiff’s PI attorney with three separate nine-figure verdicts for individual clients — a record you can bring to your client’s case.

TRIED TO VERDICT, NOT SETTLED

Your client stays yours. You keep the client relationship and remain involved throughout the case. We handle the mechanism proof, the expert coordination, and the trial preparation these cases require.

You gain the specialists. Aquatic injury and premises liability are our entire practice. Every day is spent inside these cases — not one file among many.

You keep your fee. Referral and co-counsel fees are honored consistent with applicable bar rules. There is nothing punitive about calling us in.

Cases we co-counsel

The matters we build our practice around

These are the cases we live inside. Anywhere in the United States, in association with local counsel where required.

Pool & spa drowning

Pool and spa drowning cases in residential, hotel/resort, apartment, HOA, and public settings — mechanism proof, VGB Act analysis, and industry-standard-of-care testimony.

Suction entrapment

Drain-cover failure, missing anti-entrapment systems, hair/limb/body entrapment injuries. Deep familiarity with the engineering and regulatory framework.

Negligent security

Preventable assault, robbery, or shooting on commercial property. Foreseeability, criminal-history data, and property-management standard of care.

Wrongful death & catastrophic injury

Aquatic-injury deaths, near-drowning brain injuries, and the range of catastrophic-loss claims these cases produce.

Maritime, cruise, Jones Act

Injuries at sea, cruise-ship incidents, seaman claims, and the specialized jurisdictional framework these matters carry.

Premises & product liability

Defective pool drains, safety-product failures, and premises-negligence cases where the product or property design is the injury mechanism.

The referral process

Simple, confidential, and structured to protect your relationship

1

Refer the case

Call our intake line or send case details through the form below. All communication is treated as confidential and privileged.

2

Prompt case review

Michael personally reviews every referral. If the case is a fit, we’ll return with a written co-counsel structure and next steps within days, not weeks.

3

Co-counsel, done right

You stay counsel of record; you keep the client. We bring the trial experience and specialized case-mechanism work these cases demand. Fees are honored per bar rules.

Refer a case

Direct line for attorneys

Have a case you want to talk through? Call or use the intake form below with your client’s details. All referrals are confidential.

Free, confidential consultation

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.

Multi-state representation. Attorney Michael A. Haggard is licensed to practice law in Florida (State Bar of Florida, 1996) and is admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida. Because aquatic-injury, drowning, and premises-liability cases demand nationally-recognized expertise, Mr. Haggard regularly represents families throughout the United States through pro hac vice admission or in association with locally-licensed co-counsel — a standard, court-approved practice for cases of this specialized nature.

Aquatic Attorneys The Haggard Law Firm, P.A.

The national authority in aquatic injury and wrongful-death litigation. We try these cases to verdict — and partner with local counsel in all 50 states so your family keeps its hometown lawyer.

Three $100M+ Verdicts Est. 1972 Nat’l Drowning Prevention Alliance

Contact

  • (833) 652-7600
  • 330 Alhambra Circle
    Coral Gables, FL 33134
  • Available 24 / 7

The information on this website is for general informational purposes only and is not legal advice. Contacting Aquatic Attorneys or The Haggard Law Firm, P.A. through this website does not create an attorney-client relationship. Past results do not guarantee, warrant, or predict a similar outcome in any future case; each case is unique and must be evaluated on its own facts. The Haggard Law Firm, P.A. is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, and handles aquatic-injury and wrongful-death matters nationwide in association with local counsel. The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely on advertisements.

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