U.S. Customs busted four passengers for drugs in two separate incidents this week aboard Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas cruise ship.
Accordingly to Hispanically Speaking News, U.S. Customs officers seized cocaine and heroin aboard the Serenade of the Seas when the cruise ship was docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Customs officers conducted a random inspection
I just had my first podcast which is featured on Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs.
The podcast was an interview of me by LexBlog’s Colin O’Keefe entitled: Talk of the LexBlog Network : Jim Walker of Cruise Law News Go to the link and then click on the play button if you want to
Yesterday I reported on a settlement which a passenger from Texas reached after she was seriously injured while trying to step off a tender boat onto the dock in Grand Cayman. The case illustrates the liability of cruise lines when they fail to safely transfer their passengers from the cruise ship to shore during ports of
The Miami Herald published an article on Friday entitled "New School, New Hope for Young Haitians" about Royal Caribbean Cruises building a new school in Labadee on the 260 acres which it leases from the Haitian government.
The article points out that the new 6,500-square-foot campus consists of six buildings, twelve classrooms, administrative offices and a
Several months ago, I predicted that Cruise Law News (CLN) would become a top 25 law blog by the end of the year. Well, I was a bit off. CLN is now the top 20th law blog overall per the popular Avvo / Alexa ranking system. And its only October.
Wow . . . Top 20!
Local CBS News 4 reports on a settlement reached yesterday between Carnival cruise line and a passenger trying to exit from a tender boat.
Elizabeth Reimer of Texas sailed out of Galveston to the Caribbean. When the cruise ship reached Grand Cayman, the cruise ship ferried passengers to and from the port via tender boats
MSNBC has an interesting article today by travel columnist, Christopher Elliott, entitled Staying Safe on the High Seas.
Mr. Elliott reports on the new cruise ship security and safety law signed by President Obama, the problem of sexual assaults, noro-virus, and medical facilities aboard cruise ships.
The article quoted me saying that:
"The last place you want
When my friends in my home state of Arkansas ask me how I like living in Miami, I give them the same answer – I love it, because I have always wanted to live in a foreign country.
Miami is the melting pot of the Caribbean. It is the number one place where immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, the
Today we received emails commenting on the bad medical treatment provided on board Royal Caribbean cruise ships and the recent $2,900,000 verdict against the cruise line for its negligent medical treatment rendered to an injured crew member from Nicaragua. Here are the emails:
On the $2,900,000 verdict we reported on last week: “Having worked for
Mail Online has published new photographs of the Costa Classica cruise ship following the October 18th collision with the bulk carrier Lowlands Longevity as the two vessels headed into port in Shanghai.
We reported on this yesterday: Costa Classica Cruise Ship Collides with Cargo Ship.
The photographs show a large gash into the passenger
The Costa Classica cruise ship operated by Costa Cruises collided with a cargo vessel at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The Shanghai Daily reports that the ship suffered a long gash over 60 feet long in its side and several passengers were injured. Three passengers were transferred to hospital ashore.
The accident happened in the early morning hours this morning as
A Korean television station is reporting that more than 30 Chinese tourists remain missing in Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju after 44 of them abandoned a tour group from a cruise ship.
The Chinese passengers arrived on the Italian cruise ship Costa Classica Sunday in Jeju from Shanghai and went to visit tourist sites on the island but did not return
This was another interesting week in the strange world of cruise law news.
The week ended with a Miami jury awarding $2,900,000 in compensation for an injured Royal Caribbean crew member whose knee was butchered by a doctor in Nicaragua, which I mentioned in yesterday’s blog. The trial highlighted the cruise line’s practice of keeping
Today a jury in Miami, Florida returned a verdict in the amount of $2,900,000 in favor of a disabled Royal Caribbean crew member who received terrible medical treatment after the cruise line sent her back to Honduras.
The case brings attention to the problem many Royal Caribbean crew members experience when they are injured while working for
Just when you think you have seen everything, I ran across an advertisement for a "Spy Cruise."
"SpyCruise®" advertises itself as "a private group aboard a cruise ship where members attend exclusive lectures and talks on espionage, spies, intelligence, counterterrorism and more. Speakers are intelligence experts, leaders, officers, operatives, analysts, authors and historians, many of
The Coast Guard is reporting that it medically evacuated a 17-year-old female passenger from a cruise ship 83 nautical miles southeast of Wilmington, N.C. Monday.
Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads received a phone call from a crewmember aboard the cruise ship Carnival Pride at approximately 8 p.m. stating that there was a female aboard who
An article this morning in the Chicago Tribune caught my attention – "Compensation Doesn’t Float After Cruise Ship Skips Port." The article involved a family’s request for a refund after a cruise ship missed one of the scheduled ports of call. Instead, the cruise line issued a $500 credit toward a future cruise – $200 for each parent
This month is the 25th year anniversary of the death of cruise ship passenger Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jew, who was killed by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship he was sailing on with his wife in the Mediterranean Sea in 1985.
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Mr. Klinghoffer, age 69, was from New York City and was vacationing with his wife, Marilyn, and their friends when four heavily
