A news station in California is reporting that a woman is dead after falling around 75 feet from the Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor Monday evening.
KABC News in Long Beach states that the woman "fell off a walkway" around 8:30 p.m. yesterday evening and plunged into the water below.
Another person jumped into the water to try and rescue the
CBC News in Canada published a story this week about cruise passenger Bernie Hamilton, age 66, who died following a Holland America Line ("HAL") cruise due to what sounds like a series of errors by the ship’s medical personnel. The article is entitled "Cruise Death Prompts Warning on Ships’ Medical Care."
I have heard these stories time after time over the
A number of readers of our blog have contacted us asking for information about a jet ski mishap where a cruise passenger apparently died in the Bahamas on November 24th.
The incident reportedly occurred after the cruise passenger rented a jet ski at the Atlantis resort in Nassau. The passenger had sailed to Nassau aboard the Carnival Magic cruise
Multiple news sources are reporting that a sixteen year old girl vacationing in the Cayman Islands during a cruise is in a critical condition following a collision between a jet ski and a "banana boat" near Seven Mile Public Beach.
The incident occurred shortly after noon on Thursday. The local police stated that the jet ski was being ridden by
The Bermuda Sun reports this week that three cruise passengers were taken to the hospital in Bermuda after Princess Cruises’ Grand Princess arrived in port.
A female passenger reportedly broke her ankle, a male passenger suffered a heart condition, and another male passenger lost consciousness in the cruise ship’s swimming pool.
This was the Grand Princess’s only trip to Bermuda this
A news source in the U.S. Virgin Islands reports that two passengers from the Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship were involved in a serious parasailing accident on Tuesday in St. Thomas.
The incident occurred late Tuesday afternoon while the passengers were on an excursion. One of the passengers died, and the other was seriously injured and remains hospitalized.
WPTV – 5 in West Palm Beach has an interesting article and video this morning about a U.S. soldier who was denied boarding on a cruise ship to the Bahamas by Celebration cruise line because he had only military I.D. with him.
The story involves Jupiter Florida mom Melissa Fontane who booked the cruise in
Each year 14,000,000 people (yes 14 million) will go on a cruise. There are literally hundreds of passengers, as well as crewmembers, who will suffer a serious back injury or break their ankle, leg or hip after slipping and falling while cruising. Once back home after the cruise, they find it difficult to think of hiring a lawyer who they have never met in order
The Sunday Times of London published a disturbing story today regarding paint used on cruise ships and other vessels which could leach into the ship’s water tanks. The newspaper reports that the potable water supplies may have been contaminated and posed a cancer risk to thousands of cruise passengers.
The paint could leach the toxin acrylonitrile, described as a tumor-causing probable
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
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
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
The lawsuit we filed this week of behalf of our clients for the death of their daughter, Liz Marie Perez Chaparro, has been covered in the Miami New Times and USA Today this week. The article, written by Tim Elfrink, for the Miami New Times is entitled "Couple Sues Carnival Cruise Lines After Teenage Daughter Killed in Virgin Islands Gang
A Federal District Court Judge recently awarded a verdict in favor of a cruise passenger who was seriously injured in a slip and fall accident during a cruise aboard a Carnival cruise ship.
The passenger, Ms. Denise Kaba, reportedly slipped and fell on the deck around a pool on the Carnival Pride cruise ship in August, 2009.
Fox News 11 (Los Angeles) has published a special investigation into the quality of medical care aboard cruise ships. The article is entitled "Cruise Ship Medical Care Under Scrutiny."
The article and video below focus on the fate of cruise several passengers, including the daughters of Ken Carver (Merrian Carver), and the daughter of Jamie Barnett (Ashley Barnett)
After kicking disabled cruise passenger Jim Keskeny off in a Caribbean island alone, Celebrity Cruises responded to Mr. Keskeny’s request for reimbursement of his cruise fare and travel expenses home with a "bombastic and bullying" letter threatening him with legal fees and costs, according to his Mr. Keskeny’s Michigan lawyer Richard Bernstein.
The cruise line threats
A newspaper in Michigan is reporting on what is described as a the "shocking and scary" story of a disabled cruise passenger who faced the obstacles of a non ADA-compliant cruise ship only to have the cruise line force him off the ship in a Caribbean port to fend for himself alone.
Jim Keskeny, age 66, is confined
