In 2020, Jim continued as one of the “go to” maritime lawyers when things go wrong on the high seas. He and/or Cruise Law News appeared in:

Miami New Times Royal Caribbean Knew of Sexual Assault Epidemic on Cruises But Did Nothing, Court Says

Expert Institute Infant Death on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship: Premise Liability or Human Error?

New York Times In Coronavirus, $45-Billion Cruise Industry Faces a Big Challenge

Vox The coronavirus cruise ship quarantines confirm cruises are bad

Skift Nothing Could Stop the Cruise Industry — Then Came Coronavirus

NBC News Old maritime rules pose obstacles to lawsuits from Princess Cruise passengers

Miami New Times Leaked Emails: Norwegian Pressures Sales Team to Mislead Potential Customers About Coronavirus

Sun Sentinel Big Three Cruise Lines Have Now All Shut Down t quell Coronavirus

The Intercept The Cruise Industry Pressured Caribbean Islands to Allow Tourists Ontp Their Shores Despite Coroanavirus Concerns

New York Times ‘God Knows How Many People We Infected’: New Rules Aim to Get Exposed Passengers Home

Fortune No bailouts for Bermuda and Liberia: Why cruise companies don’t qualify for coronavirus stimulus

Daily Mail Shocking images emerge from ‘ridiculously overcrowded’ Norwegian Escape cruise ship that is repatriating 3,800 non-European crew members to Miami as staff complain about tiny shared rooms and no social distancing

Business Insider Leaked memo reveals cruise industry giant MSC will not be paying some crew members stuck onboard its ships

LA Magazine In a Coronavirus World, ‘The Love Boat’ Is Still Afloat

Guardian Criminal investigation launched into Ruby Princess cruise ship coronavirus disaster

60 Minutes Australia Whistleblower reveals lucrative bonuses offered to senior management in cruise ship industry for avoiding government interference

60 Minutes Australia Seasick (Video)

Motley Fool Why Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line Stocks Crashed This Morning — Then Made It All Back

Quartz Tens of thousands are still stuck on cruise ships

Wikipedia Symphony of the Seas

Heavy Hunger Strikes and Suicides Escalate Among Stranded Crew on Cruise Ships

Jamaican Observer Cruise ships hit by deaths among stranded crews

Al Jazeera Cruise lines face legal storm over coronavirus outbreaks

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Desperate for Home

CBS News 4 workers die in 10 days on cruise ships with stranded crews

Washington Post The real problem with the cruise industry

FOX NEWS 100,000 crew members never made it off cruise ships amid coronavirus crisis

Safety at Sea Cruise ship crime wave

Slate How the Cruise Industry Became Synonymous With Disaster

Slate Floating Hellscapes: The Carnival Corporation (podcast)

ABC New Australia Hundreds of cruise ships remain stranded due to COVID-19 (audio)

Raw Story Another Crew Member in Coronavirus Limbo Dies of Apparant Suicide

Brinkwire For cruise crew members stuck at sea, mental strain is…

(Philippines) Inquiry Filipina cruise ship crew member dies awaiting repatriation

Business Mirror Fourth Filipino mariner dies onboard cruise ship

The Point Guy The coronavirus pandemic has claimed its first cruise line

USA TODAY Spanish cruise line, owned partly by Royal Caribbean, reorganizing due to coronavirus hit

Tradewinds Lawyer: Pullmantur ships rumoured to be headed for scrapping

New York Times The Post-Coronavirus Cruise? Not Ready to Sail

Tradewinds Carnival sells cruiseship to Italian yard in radical step for European scrapping

Skift Cruise Lines’ Booking Practices in a Pandemic Are ‘Astonishing’: CDC Official

Argophilia TUI’s Mein Schiff 2 Sets Sail Into Wicked Public Relations Storm

Cruise 4 News TUI Cruises: Five Corona cases in the crew of Mein Schiff 1

Travel Mole Cruise lines warned against ‘rushing to chase revenue’ after more coronavirus cases

Yahoo 41 Norway Cruise Ship Passengers And Crew Test Positive For COVID-19

Loop Cayman As borders reopen, Cayman must consider the impact of cruise emissions

Washington Post Cruise ships, early incubators of the coronavirus, prepare to return to sea in Europe

Alba Sud Companies will remain motivated to attract the public to travel on their ships, whether safe or not

Travel Trend Could Rapid COVID-19 Testing Save The Cruise Industry?

Business Insider Carnival cruise lines is laying off some of its crew members, a week after announcing it’s selling some of its fleet

Orlando Weekly Florida-based Carnival, losing more than $17,000 a minute, offloads 18 ships in effort to stay afloat

USA Today Coronavirus has exposed a secret underbelly of the travel business: Ponzi-style schemes to pay bookings

CJZ Cruising: The Biggest Storm

New York Times Cruise Ship Rescues 24 People From Sinking Boat Off Florida Coast

Telegraph First Caribbean cruise since March runs into a storm over face masks

CBS-4 Miami COVID-19 Outbreak Forces SeaDream To Cancel Sailings

Orlando Sentinel Eight months after all cruises were canceled, customers still wait for refunds

Tampa Bay Times Still waiting on a refund for a canceled cruise? You’re not alone