This weekend our television has alternated between college football games and documentaries about the horror of 9/11.
Where were you on 9/11? Many of the special programs seem to ask.
I was in my office talking to Dad who was with my Mom visiting my sister in Park City, Utah. I was with him on the telephone when the
This morning I was trying to find articles with real time and genuine insight into the ferry disaster off Tanzania.
An old vessel called the Spice Islander grossly overloaded with over 1,000 passengers sank. There have been around two hundred people pulled from the water dead and some 600 rescued.
I kept finding one detached articles after another from the mainstream press, many erroneously
Every so often we receive an email or telephone call from someone asking why cruise ships can’t sail from one U.S. port to another.
The reason is because there is a Federal law which prohibits foreign flagged ships from coastwise trade between U.S. ports. Only U.S. flagged ship can do that. The thought at one
A third class action lawsuit has been filed against Royal Caribbean Cruises seeking class action certification for what is alleged to be fraudulent conduct by the cruise line and executives Richard Fain, Brian Rice, and Henry Pujol.
The law suit was filed by the law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check in Pennsylvania.
We reported on the first two
News sources in the U.K. are reporting on the dramatic rescue of a 23 year old passenger who fell from what is being described as a cruise ferry which was heading from England to the Netherlands.
The incident reportedly occurred, according to the Whitley Gazette, on Monday night around 9:00 PM when the young woman trying to light a
Last week we reported on the case of Lindo v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd. where the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of a case filed on behalf of a seriously injured NCL crewmember from a U.S. court, leaving him to seek compensation in Nicaragua.
Today the same court entered a similar order in the case
Over the years I have learned that the single most critical factor that drives clients to our office is not when a cruise passenger has been injured or inconvenienced. Stuff happens, and most people understand that. But when a cruise line treats passengers poorly after injuring or inconveniencing them, that’s when our law firm’s telephone begins to ring.
Over 75% of
This past week I have received a few emails from Cruise Law News subscribers wondering why there have been no blogs for the past week.
There certainly have been no shortage of interesting cruise stories. Another public relations snafu by Royal Caribbean, a cruise ship collision, a couple of interesting legal cases, and even a
Yesterday, Paul Motter’s popular online cruise community "Cruisemates" published an interesting article entitled "Mainstream Media Stupidity over Cruising." The article is about the weird and sad story of an irate and perhaps drunk father throwing his 7 year old son overboard during a cruise around a harbor in Southern California on a sight-seeing boat.
Cruisemates was upset that
Yesterday, in the case of Lindo v. NCL, a federal appellate court entered a decision which further stripped the legal rights away from seriously injured cruise employees.
The Lindo case is the latest decision which reflects that our judiciary has little concern for the rights of cruise employees outside of the U.S.
Eight years ago the
Multiple news sources are reporting that a passenger threw his 7 year old son overboard from the Pavillion Queen, which is being referred to as either a cruise ship or sight seeing boat.
The incident occurred yesterday afternoon, when Sloane Briles, age 35, was sailing on a sight seeing cruise in Newport Harbor, California with his girlfriend and two sons, ages
The Juneau Empire published an interesting article this morning about how the cruise industry routinely ignores a U.S. law requiring the use of U.S. longshore workers to perform certain duties, such as operating tender boats and handling cargo and luggage.
The newspaper reports that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) plans to picket today over the practice of the cruise lines which refuse to utilize
Hurricane Irene has been the big story this week as the cruise lines juggled itineraries to keep their cruise ships out of Irene’s path.
The Right Way, and Wrong Way, to Abandon Families in a Foreign Port as a Monster Storm Approaches
Carnival and Royal Caribbean received a lot of press for leaving hundreds of passengers in
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This week I received a copy of a paperback book about the disappearance of George Smith IV during his honeymoon cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas in July 2005.
The book is written by a reporter from the Greenwich Post, Joan Lownds, who covered the story from the beginning.
The back cover of the book promises
The images of the "rebel forces" advancing into Tripoli mesmerized me this weekend. It has been a surreal experience to see the "Green Square" in Tripoli filled with joyful Libyans celebrating the anticipated fall of Colonel Gaddafi.
In 1965 my Dad took our family to Tripoli after he obtained a job as a geophysicist for a major U.S. oil company in Libya.
Dad had
The Tribune newspaper in the Bahamas is reporting that a pleasure cruise on board the Discovery cruise ship turned into terror and aggravation for hundreds of passengers when a bomb threat stopped the ship at night en route to Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale. The incident began when Miami Dade Police Department received a 911 call around
Yesterday the Bermuda Sun reported on two additional drugs busts involving both cruise passengers and crewmembers.
The Bermuda Sun reports that yet another cruise passenger was arrested with a small amount of marijuana in his cabin. This arrest involved a 48 year old US tourist who was arrested after Customs officers from Bermuda entered his cabin. The cruise passenger
The big news this week in cruise ship social media 2.0 is that no one other than Carnival’s CEO Micky Arison just joined Twitter. You can check out his tweets at @MickyArison. He has received a warm welcome mostly by cruise fanatics and Miami Heat fans.
It will be interesting to see if CEO Arison sticks around and really engages on Twitter.
