Today I created a Facebook page for Cruise Law News.
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Instead of posting links on my personal page on Facebook, I will be posting links to this blog and other cruise and maritime articles on the Facebook page for Cruise Law News. Now, anyone who is a member of Facebook can leave comments, links to cruise articles and
Cruise Law News is a big fan of the United States Coast Guard which came to the rescue of a 79-year-old passenger aboard the Carnival cruise ship Spirit yesterday.
According to 10News.com, the Carnival cruise ship was about 570 miles south of San Diego when the vessel notified the USCG that a passenger was experiencing health problems. At around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, a
Our firm is investigating the tragic death of a young girl who was shot and killed while ashore in St. Thomas during a cruise. This child was one of hundred of thousands of passengers who sail into this beautiful island each year without realizing that St. Thomas has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. It’s murder rate this year
I have written many articles about the high crime rates in many of the Caribbean islands frequented by cruise lines – Crime in Caribbean Ports of Call Against Cruise Passengers. Consider the following articles in the last year alone:
Antigua – Cruise Passengers Attacked & Robbed in Antigua While Cruise and Tourism Officials Meet and Passenger From Star
A 72 year old from Pennslyvania who cruised on the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship last December remains in jail while awaiting trial on allegations that he traveled to Florida to molest boys on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
Sherwood Stevenson has been held in jail since his arrest in June on a charge
The Daily Business Review published an interesting article today about a local cruise line’s efforts to disqualify our firm and our co-counsel, Jonathan Aronson. The article is entitled "Cruise Line Case Highlights Ethics of Switching Sides."
The dispute arises out of the fact that Aronson used to be one of the cruise line’s defense lawyers
Today, the Miami Daily Business Review ran an article about Royal Caribbean trying to disqualify our firm (a story I wrote about last week – more about that later). The Business Review characterized Cruise Law News (CLN) as a "hard hitting blog."
Launched in September 2009, CLN has become one of the most widely read legal blogs in the U.S.
mirage cruise ship “missing passenger” overboard
Continue Reading Passenger Missing from Cruise Ship in the Mediterranean
In May, we reported the arrest of a 30 year old bartender who was arrested after sexually assaulting a 14 year old passenger cruising with her parents on Carnival’s Freedom cruise ship – Carnival Cruise Ship Bartender Arrested On Charges Of Raping 14 Year Old Passenger.
Today a Federal District Court Judge in Orlando sentenced cruise ship bartender, Hery Krispiyanto
Lucas G. Wickes, age 25, of Rochester New York pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl on January 1, 2007, on board the Disney cruise ship Disney Wonder after it left Port Canaveral for a Caribbean cruise.
The passenger approached the girl when she left a teen club on the cruise ship and ordered her to accompany him. The
Yesterday, I boarded Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas cruise ship at the Port of Miami for what maritime lawyers call a “vessel inspection.” I boarded the cruise ship with my co-counsel on the case, Jonathan Aronson, and a top engineering expert.
Our client, a passenger, had been seriously injured when she fell on a
The police in Hong Kong arrested a 47 year old passenger after he reportedly pushed his 43 year old wife overboard from the MV Macau Success cruise ship yesterday.
The cruise ship made an emergency call to police at 7:40 a.m. reporting that a woman had been pushed into the sea at 7:20 a.m. The police sent
Medivac defintion: "Air transport of persons to a place where they can receive medical or surgical care; medical evacuation."
"Medivac" is a word that you hope the cruise ship doctor has heard before if you become seriously ill or injured during a cruise. As I have mentioned in prior blogs, a cruise ship is the last
This week was another interesting week in the strange world of cruise law. Just consider:
A Cruise CEO With Billions of Dollars But No Soul?
Carnival Cruise’s CEO Billionaire Mickey Arison was named the richest man in Florida again by 
Fortune magazine with a net worth of $4,100,000,000. So why does he pay his injured and ill crew
In 2008, a scandal broke out in the Miami legal community. Royal Caribbean Cruises discovered that one of its employees in its risk management department had been bribed by a local law firm – the Wingate Law Firm – to divulge the settlement authority authorized by the cruise line’ s underwriters to settle crew member cases.
The bribery allegations involved a
Professor Ross Klein’s Cruise Junkie web site contains an account of a passenger jumping overboard from Celebrity Solstice last Friday:
From a reader: The story on the cruise that I was on goes like this: On early Friday morning around 1:30 am a person fell overboard from the 5th floor. It took them about an hour
The Federal Maritime Commission just issued the folowing update regarding Cruise West cancelations and refund options:
The United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) has announced on its website that consumers should be aware that partial or full reimbursement of lost payments and/or deposits for Cruise West products made prior to September 11, 2010, may be protected under the
Throughout the last decade, Royal Caribbean’s reputation would embarrass most executives. Compared to other cruise lines, the cruise line was served with the most lawsuits, paid the highest settlements, and incurred the highest defense attorney fees.
In 2008, Royal Caribbean tried to reign in its out-of-control risk management department by what can only be described as cut throat measures. It terminated its vice president of risk management, an associate general
