A story in the BVI Platinum’s newspaper indicates that the cruise excursion bus driver Roland Allen, nick-named "Crash Dummy," had been convicted of driving offenses – including reckless driving – before the ill-fated Princess Cruises excursion bus crash.
We suspected this, as we raised this issue in a prior article "How Did Princess Cruises Excursion Bus Driver "Crash Dummy"
When cruise passengers are injured during cruises and require legal representation, the chances are that they will require a lawyer in South Florida. Most cruise lines are based in either Miami or Fort Lauderdale. These cruise lines include "forum selection" clauses in the passenger tickets which require that the passenger’s lawsuit must be filed in Florida.
So if the accident occurs on a cruise
A lot of people ask me how I became involved practicing maritime law.
Thirty years ago, I started law school at Tulane School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana. I may be biased, but Tulane has the best law school in the United States involving maritime studies. Tulane has a renowned "Admiralty and Maritime Law" program which is part of the Tulane Maritime Law
A number of photographs and videos have been posted on the internet showing the large wave which hit the Louis Majesty cruise ship.
We reported on this story in prior articles: Monster Waves Hit Louis Majesty Cruise Ship and President of International Cruise Victims Questions Cruise Passenger Safety – Louis Cruise Lines No Stranger to Disaster
Celebrity Cruises is again reporting that at least 55 passengers have fallen ill on its Mercury cruise ship with norovirus-like symptoms.
In a prior article we questioned: Will the Celebrity Mercury Infect Another Round of Passengers?
Here We Go Again
A local news source in South Carolina, the Palmetto Scoop, reports on the latest cruise 
ship sickness in
This morning Kendall Carver, President of the International Cruise Victims organization, appeared on the "Fox and Friends" television show regarding the death of passengers aboard the Louis Majesty cruise ship.
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Mr. Carver raised the issue why the passengers were not warned of the wave conditions before the disaster, based on information gathered from the ship’s radar and ocean
Three 30 foot waves crashed into the Louis Majesty cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday. Two passengers died.
The Greece-based Louis Cruise Lines ship was north-east of Barcelona, Spain, heading east to Genoa, Italy when three “abnormal” waves struck the vessel.
The waves smashed windows in public areas. CNN reported that the deceased
In an article entitled "Taxi Driver Granted $60,000 Bail – License Suspended," BVI News in Tortola, British Virgin Islands (BVI) reports that the driver of the Princess Cruises excursion bus arrested for reckless driving and causing death by reckless driving has been offered bail in the amount $60,000. The Magistrate set bail of $25,000 cash and a $35,000 surety.
BVI citizen
CruiseJunkie.com reports that was a person may have gone overboard from the Costa Serena last Saturday February 27th.
A passenger informed the CruiseJunkie web site that a person was reported missing from the Costa cruise ship while in the Atlantic between the Canary Islands and Malaga.
The web site stresses that this incident is not yet confirmed from the cruise line company
Today we had the honor of being invited to speak to the maritime law society at Stetson University College of Law.
Stetson has the oldest law school in Florida, founded in 1900. Its campus is located on the beautiful Mediterranean style architecture campus in Gulfport, Florida.
I discussed the topic “Crime on Cruise Ships,”
Syracuse New York local news station Channel 10’s "Travel with Val" takes a look at Royal Caribbean’s controversial decision to continue sailing to its "private resort" of Labadee, Haiti.
While the cruise line is shipping pallets of food and supplies to Labadee and committed $1 million from its net proceeds, is this enough from a
Last week I met Kevin O’Keefe. Kevin is the genius behind LexBlog which designs and creates law blogs and supports legal bloggers like myself. If you like the design and functionality of this blog, thank Kevin. His 
team designed it.
Kevin’s company also runs LexMonitor, the best round-up of legal blogs around, as well as LexTweet
A headline in the NoroBlog intrigued me – "Cruise Ships Causing Norovirus Outbreaks in Ports?" – indicating that norovirus is "often associated with cruise ship sickness." The article also raises the question whether cruise ships can infect the local port communities.
The cruise industry’s PR people have been fighting the connection between norovirus and "cruise ship sickness" for
The on line web information portal CruiseJunkie.com is reporting that a passenger may have gone overboard yesterday from the Rotterdam cruise ship.
The report is based on information received from a passenger on the Holland America Line cruise ship.
CruiseJunkie.com is operated by Dr. Ross Klein, a cruise industry expert who has, among other pages, a large
The departure of Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship, scheduled for today, has been delayed so that the cruise line can make a last ditch effort to try and kill the norovirus which sickened over 20% of the passengers and crew during its last cruise.
Celebrity is offering vouchers to accommodate the passengers or staying overnight in Charleston.
The ship is now scheduled
Newspapers are reporting that the Costa Europa cruise ship collided with a pier in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt yesterday. The collision ripped a hole in the hull of the ship and flooded a crew cabin, resulting in the death of three crew member who, unidentified, are described as "an Indian, a Honduran and a Brazilian." (Technically speaking, when a
In our first article regarding the excursion tour bus accident in Tortola, we explained that while Princess Cruises sent "customer care" representatives to the island to meet with the survivors of the crash – the cruise line also sent Miami defense trial lawyers to defend the cruise line’s interests.
The Cruise Line Gets Lawyered Up
The attorney heading up Princess Cruises’
13WHAM in Rochester, New York has a story on Aaron Rumphrey, who passed away during a shore excursion in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. He had been cruising with his parents. Written by Elizabeth Schubert, the article is entitled "Easy, Gracious Man."
Mr. Rumphrey attended classes at the Cobblestone Arts Center in Farmington, New York. His teachers and friends there remember him as
