Mr. Vega has over 30 years of experience in general civil litigation, admiralty, maritime and transportation law, health law, medical malpractice claims, certificates of convenience and necessity, labor and employment law, personal injury, contracts, Jones Act claims, marine cargo claims, passenger personal injury claims, disembarkation and repatriation of ill and deceased crewmembers, and proceedings before State and Federal administrative agencies. He has an intensive litigation practice that requires regular appearances before the Commonwealth and Federal courts of Puerto Rico, having successfully tried many cases.
Likewise, Mr. Vega has extensive experience in appellate practice. He has successfully appeared many times before the Court of Appeals of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He has substantive experience in appeals before administrative agencies, such as the Department of Consumer Affairs, University of Puerto Rico, Department of Labor, and Department of Health, and the remission and mitigation of fines and penalties before the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection.
Mr. Vega's work has resulted in novel applications of the law by Commonwealth and Federal courts. In admiralty and transportation law, he obtained a judgment on behalf of a maritime carrier enforcing a hold harmless clause in a bill of lading in litigation resulting from a catastrophic truck accident that occurred five miles inland. In a medical malpractice case, Vega's work resulted in an Opinion of the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals using the date of the medical records' production to the deceased's relatives as the base for the calculation of the one-year statute of limitations.
Mr. Vega is a speaker on litigation techniques and ethics in seminars and conferences attended by attorneys, physicians, and other professionals.
He enjoys sharing his professional and litigation experience and providing pro-bono services in his community.
