Personal Injury Law

Tiger Woods is being sued after former deckhand loses fingers in accident on yacht

By Lipcon, Margulies & Alsina, P.A.

Disgraced golfing ace Tiger Woods is being sued by a former deckhand whose fingers were chopped off in an accident aboard his £10 million super yacht.

A lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County, Florida, is reportedly demanding unspecified damages following the 2005 mishap, in which Alexander McKee lost two fingers while working on the luxury 155ft vessel Privacy.

At the time, Woods' Florida corporation ETW footed medical bills and gave the worker a severance package before he left.

But it seems the 25-year-old, who now lives in Washington, was not satisfied and wants the serial philanderer to pay up.

According to the Palm Beach Post, McKee claims he was cleaning the deck of the lavish boat when a hatch slammed shut on his hand.

The hatch, says McKee's lawyer Wayne Mitchell, severed two of his fingers. Surgeons managed to re-attach one of the tips but the other finger had to be partly amputated.

Mitchell told the newspaper that at first, Woods' people took care of McKee, paying for some of his medical expenses.

But, he added: 'The young man endured more medical care and expenses. And he hasn't been able to work on a ship since.'

Woods' Miami-based attorney Neil Bayer responded in court documents saying that McKee should have been aware that he risked serious injury during the course of his work.

Full post as published by Cruise Ship Law on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).