Closed circuit television (CCTV) video helped the Sun Cruz Casino defend a claim made by a passenger who staged a fake accident at the bottom of a stairwell on the ship.
The video shows an elderly man walking repeatedly up and down a stairwell, apparently rehearsing how the accident will unfold. When no one is
CNN iReport contains a first hand account from a passenger describing a collision between Silversea Cruises’ Silver Shadow cruise ship and what is being described as a Vietnamese container ship near Halong bay, Vietnam. The report indicates damage to both the cruise ship and the container ship. The passenger’s account and a photograph of
A cruise sponsored open safari bus excursion from a Royal Caribbean ship crashed in St. Thomas, resulting in injuries to cruise passengers.
The passengers were traveling from the Serenade of the Seas cruise ship in the safari bus when the open air bus lost control going down an embankment.
Royal Caribbean stated that eleven of the passengers were immediately transported to a local area
Multiple news sources are reporting that a 26-year-old American passenger aboard a Carnival cruise ship fell to his death.
The incident occurred on the Carnival Fantasy cruise ship. The man apparently fell from the upper levels all the way down to the lobby level of the cruise ship
The cruise ship docked in Nassau, Bahamas last night. Its departure today was delayed
A year and a half ago, I wrote about the danger of serious injury and death created by the “FlowRider” attraction on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship. The article is entitled Wipeout! Liability of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line for FlowRider Accidents.
In the article, I discussed that the cruise line forces the passengers to sign
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
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
We just settled a case we filed on behalf of a Jamaican crewmember who sustained a wrist injury while working as a cleaner aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. She is now able to support her two boys back in Ocho Rios (photo left).
Her job responsibilities involved cleaning every single public lady bathroom on
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.
Multiple news stations are reporting today that a passenger from the Carnival Sensation cruise ship was fatally injured while in a serious accident involving a jet ski rented during a port call in Nassau.
A second passenger sustained injuries and is recovering at a hospital in Nassau.
Carnival states that the cruise passengers rented the jet ski directly from
My Brazilian friend, Alexandre Gonçalves da Rocha, alerted me today to an accident which recently occurred at the port in Buenos Aires when the MSC Opera struck the dock.
Alexandre is a Brazilian who works as a maritime pilot at the port of Itajai since 1998 (no, he was not piloting this cruise ship!). He writes a great maritime blog
Cruise Law News has been contacted by two passengers this weekend, inquiring about a serious accident which occurred on the Oasis of the Seas. The passengers are describing the incident as occurring during a crew fire drill while the cruise ship was at the port in Cozumel last Thursday, January 27th. A crew member was badly injured and
A 29 year old crew member died during a botched life boat training exercise in New Zealand today.
According to newspapers in New Zealand, the accident occurred when crew members from Holland America Line’s Volendam cruise ship were practicing life boats drills. One of the wires attaching the lifeboat to the cruise ship snapped, throwing the two HAL crew members into the
Yesterday I reported on a settlement which a passenger from Texas reached after she was seriously injured while trying to step off a tender boat onto the dock in Grand Cayman. The case illustrates the liability of cruise lines when they fail to safely transfer their passengers from the cruise ship to shore during ports of
Local CBS News 4 reports on a settlement reached yesterday between Carnival cruise line and a passenger trying to exit from a tender boat.
Elizabeth Reimer of Texas sailed out of Galveston to the Caribbean. When the cruise ship reached Grand Cayman, the cruise ship ferried passengers to and from the port via tender boats
Lawsuits have been filed following the sinking of a "Duck Boat" cruise vessel on Delaware River in Philadelphia in July.
On July 7, a 250 foot barge pushed by a tugboat ran over and sank a disabled "Ride the Ducks" amphibious tour boat with 35 passengers and 2 crew members aboard.
The tugboat either did not hear or ignored multiple warnings that
