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The press in Mexico is raising questions about the criminal charges leveled against Nelson Pérez Torres, who is jailed and awaiting trial for the murder of Royal Caribbean crewmember, Monika Markiewicz.
Ms. Markiewizc was an accomplished musician employed as a violinist aboard Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. In February, she disembarked in Cozumel from
NBC Los Angeles reports today that Royal Caribbean Cruises demonstrated "a gross indifference to the life and health" of passengers by continuing to cruise with a ship that "that allowed poison gas exposure to its passengers," according to Miami Dade County Judge Marc Schumacher.
The ruling today involved a leak of hydrogen sulfide that killed three Royal Caribbean crew
This past week has been a busy time for our firm with many international news stories being published about the cruise industry.
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Our firm is off and running with our advertising in Jamaica. We spent Sunday fielding questions from prospective clients in response to our ads in local Sunday newspapers. We are in discussions with advertisers in other Caribbean countries where injured and disabled
BBC News is reporting today on the dramatic rescue of a critically ill passenger from Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas.
The U.K. Coast Guard was notified by the captain of the Independence of the Seas on Saturday night that a passenger was very ill and needed to be evacuated from the cruise ship. A helicopter
The Los Angeles Times has an interesting although very sad article about the mystery of a missing crewmember from the Disney Wonder cruise ship. Written by Corina Knoll, the LA Times article is entitled "Bereft Parents’ Loss is as Deep as the Ocean."
Rebecca Coriam, a 24 year old from Chester, England, joined Disney Cruise Line to work with kids
On June 10th, a senior Federal District Court Judge in Miami rejected an attempt by a Miami-based cruise line to limit its potential liability at no more than $65,000 for alleged damages suffered by a minor raped on a cruise ship.
The case arose out of a shipboard rape of a girl alleged against Oceania Cruises. According to
Today we began advertising in Jamaica, as I mentioned in an earlier blog. The ad below will begin appearing in some of the newspapers in Jamaica, and a variation will appear on some of the billboards in Jamaica.
I have been a lawyer for 28 years. I have never advertised on television, radio, newspapers or billboards. We have relied on our reputation
The BDA Sun newspaper in Bermuda is reporting that a 52 year-old cruise passenger died during a diving excursion in Bermuda.
Donna Zapata cruised with her husband on Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas to Bermuda. She went on what is described as a "helmet diving" excursion with Hartley’s Bell Diving. The newspaper explains that this involves "shallow
A number of newspapers in the U.K. are reporting that 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers were forced to endure seven hours of immigration checks when their cruise ship docked at the port of Los Angeles.
The U.K.’s Telegraph and the Mail Online have rather sensationalized accounts of how things went wrong once when passengers aboard the luxury P&O cruise
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The Mercury News in San Jose California reports that four environmental groups filed a petition with the federal government today seeking to force cruise ships and other large vessels to slow down in waters between San Francisco and Los Angeles in order to reduce the chances of whale strikes.
A San Francisco environmental group, Pacific Environment
The Nassau Guardian reports that a cruise ship passenger went missing sometime Saturday after he left a Paradise Island beach on a rented jet ski and did not return. The newspaper reports that the U.S. Embassy has been notified of the passenger’s disappearance, and that two friends who accompanied the passenger on the cruise left with the ship.
The
The Australian newspaper reports that the Federal government in Australia is ignoring certain cruise safety recommendations proposed by Australian Coroner Jacqueline Milledge following an inquest into the death of P & O Cruises passenger Dianne Brimble.
Ms. Brimble’s death and the dreadful state of affairs which existed in the P & O Cruises fleet were some of the first issues I
This past week has been an exciting period of time for the lawyers at Cruise Law.
Jamaica:
Jonathan Aronson and I returned from visiting clients in Jamaica. There are a number of injured crew members who the cruise lines have dumped back in their home country after they were injured working the long hours demanded
The Telegraph newspaper in the U.K. has an interesting story containing a passenger’s account of events aboard the Independence of the Seas following the explosion at the port in Gibraltar. Some of the accounts:
“People thought it was a bomb and started screaming. Parents jumped in the pool to grab their children, while others dashed
The Virgin Islands Daily News reports today on the death of a young girl killed during a cruise stop in St. Thomas. We represent the parents of the deceased girl, Liz Marie Peréz Chaparro, a victim of the saddest, most senseless and avoidable tragedies we have ever seen in 28 years of practicing law. Here is the article today:
"ST. THOMAS –
Writing this article, I’m reminded of Seth Meyers’s joke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner – addressing the Senate: “I don’t think you read bills anyways. I think you guys vote on bills the same way the rest of us agree to updated terms and conditions on iTunes.”
Let’s be honest. Most of us don’t
A local Charleston South Carolina television station (WCIV ABC-4) is reporting that the Southern Environmental Law Center in Charleston is preparing to file a lawsuit against Carnival Cruise Lines to make the cruise line subject to city and state regulations.
The lawsuit is the latest development in the debate about the suitability of cruise ships in this quaint old southern
Last week I was away from my computer traveling in Jamaica to visit crewmembers while the story broke about the U.K.’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency detaining the MSC Cruises’ Opera cruise ship for safety violations.
The incident was the type of event which I would normally and quickly write about. But by the time I returned to Miami the cruise
