The sad case of Neha Chhikara who jumped from the Royal Caribbean cruise on December 31, 2009 continues to receive widespread attention in India. Her friends have expressed condolences to the Chhikara family for her untimely death.
Newspapers in India are now reporting that the family of the accused crew member Ankit Dalal has responded to the charges.
Star News in India – which offers viewers "24-hour Hindi news" – has posted a video interview of the family of Neha Chhikara regarding the death of their daughter.
The family claims that Ms. Chhikara’s husband, Ankit Dalal, tortured her. This alleged mistreatment led to her suicide on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the Chhikara family contends.
The video contains photographs
The Press Trust of India reports that the police in the city of Gurgaon lodged a "FIR" (dowry complaint of harassment) against Royal Caribbean crew member Ankit Dalal (and his family) after his wife Neha Chhikara apparently committed suicide by jumping off the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Monarch of the Seas on December 31, 2009.
Dowry is an agreement where the
Three newspapers in India are reporting that a Royal Caribbean employee, Ankit Dalal, abused his wife, Neha Chhikara, shortly before she apparently jumped from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Monarch of the Seas on New Year’s Eve.
Mr. Dalal is identified in a newspaper articles as a manager for Royal Caribbean on the cruise ship.
We previously reported on this story
The Faliva family has expressed their frustration with Princess Cruises’ lack of information, the attitude of the cruise ship’s captain, and the cruise line’s delay in cooperating with investigators following the "disappearance" of Angelo Faliva from the Coral Princess cruise ship on November 25th.
The Italian newspaper Gialli quotes Mr. Faliva’s sister, Chiara Faliva, questioning how a cruise ship filled with video
The Paradise Valley United Methodist Church in Arizona dedicated a bronze statue in remembrance of Merrian Carver, the daughter of Carol Carver and International Cruise Victims president Ken Carver.
We have written about Merrian’s "disappearance" in 2004 during a cruise to Alaska, and Mr. Carver’s five year battle to reform the cruise industry:
News sources are reporting that a 23-year-old woman, Neha Chhikara, went overboard from the Monarch of the Seas cruise ship near Nassau, Bahamas, around 4 a.m. this morning.
The Monarch of the Seas is operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises which has had more than its 
share of overboards in the last few years. The cruise ship left Port Canaveral
The Italian family of crew member Angelo Faliva is continuing to search for answers to explain the circumstances regarding his disappearance from the Coral Princess, a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises which is based in Santa Clarita, California.
For those of you who read my blog, you know that I have taken a sabbatical away from Cruise Law News since December 19th.
Ten days without a single blog. A record!
After 100 articles in a little over three months, I needed a break. My readers probably did too.
My other excuse is that
There have been a few news stories about a cruise ship "passenger’ dying of Legionnaire’s disease after sailing on Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas.
The Miami Herald and the South Florida Business Review ("Legionnaire’s May Be Linked to Ship") published articles last week about Mr. Tore Myhra – described as an "English tourist" – who died
Today, LexMonitor published an interview of me by Lisa Kennelly. For those of you-not-in-the-know, LexMonitor is run by super-law-blog-expert Kevin O’Keefe of LexBlog which offers the best services in the universe for frustrated lawyers who feel the need to blog after working a-100-hour-week. The interviewer, Lisa Kennelly – a Harvard graduate! – asked me some questions about my new blog.
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The Miami Herald reports today that a tourist from the U.K. who died from Legionnaires’ disease had previously sailed on a seven-day Caribbean cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas.
The newspaper identifies the English cruise passenger as Mr. Tore Myhra.
Previously, there was speculation that Mr. Myhra may have contracted the disease at a
A jury here in Miami awarded a crew member injured on a cruise ship approximately $9,500,000 as compensation for serious injuries sustained on a NCL cruise ship.
Danny Simpson, a citizen of the U.K., was employed by spa concessionaire, Steiner Transocean, as a fitness instructor aboard the Norwegian Crown. In 2006, he slipped on the spa floor and
Nassau’s venerable newspaper, the Nassau Guardian, published two interesting headlines in its weekend edition.
The first headline was "Oasis Makes Grand Arrival."
The second? "Record-Breaking Murder Count."
The newspaper reports that the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s new mega-ship Oasis of the Seas brought out the Government of the Bahamas in great display. 200 government
The Chicago Sun Times has an article today regarding the impact of crime against cruise passengers in the Bahamas. The article is entitled "Sometimes, it’s not better in the Bahamas – Armed robberies in Nassau have tourists, cruise lines on the defensive."
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The article is by a Disney cruise passenger, Carney Milne, who
Yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard located a Royal Caribbean crew member who reportedly jumped off of the Majesty of the Seas around 4:30 a.m. as the cruise ship approached Miami.
Thirty-one-year-old Robert Mado was found treading water off Cutler Bay about two hours after the Royal Caribbean cruise ship issued a distress call Friday morning. Crew member Mado was
The St. Lucia Star newspaper reports that on December 9, 2009, 14 “cruise ship visitors” and tour guides were robbed at gunpoint at a popular tourist attraction in St. Lucia. I learned of the incident 
on Professor Ross Klein’s website “Cruise Junkie.”
The incident occurred at the River Rock Waterfall in Anse-La-Raye.
The
In an article entitled "Family Seeks Answers in Disappearance of Italian Chef From Cruise Ship," the LA Times reports that family members, of an Italian chef who disappeared during a cruise, met with Princess Cruises representatives in California to obtain information regarding 
what happened to their son and brother.
The family of Angelo Faliva (shown here left) had flown from Italy to
