Every year or so, a travel agent with a blog will take it upon himself to level personal insults against us in a half-baked effort to defend the cruise industry.
One year ago, Richard Turen, a CLIA-certified travel agent, criticized me in an ill-conceived article which appeared in Travel Weekly. Mr. Turen’s blog, the
I’ve written thousands of articles here on Cruise Law News about all type of issues – cruise ship air pollution, cruise waste discharge, mistreatment of crew employees and the cruise industry’s exploitation of the Caribbean ports of call all the while cruise executives pocket obscene amounts of money.
But one of the issues that I rarely write
In 2014, 1,718,131 people read 6,104,186 people pages of Cruise Law News.
Our busiest day was April 7, 2014 when over 110,000 visitors read our article when we were the first to report on the murder of a NCL crew member in Roatan, Honduras near the port.
Crime in ports of call was
According to the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), more cruise passengers have sailed in Florida and around the world than ever before.
Last year, the number of passengers taking cruises on North American cruise lines increased approximately nearly 4 percent to 17,600,000.
6,150,000 passengers sailed from Florida, an increase of 1.3 percent to 6.15 million
Last month, 247,433 people read 843,370 pages of Cruise Law News (per Google Analytics). That’s a record month for us.
If our readership continues to grow, as it has done over the years, we are on track to having 3,000,000 people reading over 10,000,000 pages of our blog a year.
Our blog is currently the
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This week, our social media presence reached a milestone.
The Cruise Law News Facebook page reached 100,000 "likes."
The majority of our Facebook fans are from outside of the U.S. We have tens of thousands of crew members who have "liked" us. We receive a great deal of information from crew members regarding a wide
Tomorrow the lawyers here at our firm are traveling again to Jamaica.
We’ll be visiting our clients to see how they are doing. I will be meeting friends in Falmouth and will see if there has been any signs of the revitalization of the town after the new Royal Caribbean port destroyed ancient coral reefs
Watch the video of the FlowRider at the bottom of this page. Looks like fun doesn’t it? The rider surfs on the water and never wipe-outs. Easy right?
Not at all. The person in the video below is a skilled and experienced Royal Caribbean employee who has spent many hours riding the FlowRider.
Now
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Over thirty years ago, I graduated from Tulane School of Law which had, and still has, one of the best maritime law curriculum programs in the U.S.
In law school, I took courses as a second and third year law school student in Maritime Personal Injury & Death, Maritime Jurisdiction, Maritime Insurance and Carriage of
Our law firm handles cases on behalf of injured passengers and crew members against cruise lines. Other law firms handle auto accidents, dog bite cases and whatever may walk in the door. Our firm sues only cruise lines in cases involving serious injuries. That’s all that we do.
One of the cruise lines that we
Today a local NBC station in South Florida posted a video of the recent disclosure of cruise ship crime statistics.
You can read the article here.
The video (below) includes an interview with me about the provisions of the Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act of 2010 (CVSSA) which permitted cruise ship crimes and
Injured on a cruise ship and looking to retain an experienced maritime lawyer? Consider Miami lawyer Jim Walker.
Jim studied maritime case in law school in the early 1980’s and has practiced maritime law for the past thirty years. For the last fifteen years, Jim has focused his law practice exclusively on representing passengers
When injured Royal Caribbean crew members contact us, there are a few things that they usually say:
"The ship doctor would not take me seriously and just gave me Ibuprofen;"
"My supervisor told me that if I didn’t want to work I would be sent home;"
"The company would not send me to a doctor
This morning Cruise Law News hit a milestone when the 50,000th person "liked" our Facebook page.
The motto of this blog is "everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know." One of our main goals is to educate the public about dangers and problems on cruise ships that the cruise industry would like
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Lawsuits continue to be filed against Carnival arising out of the fire-disabled Triumph cruise ship.
Passengers were subjected to disgusting conditions due to overflowing toilets and a lack of air-conditioning. We made a decision not to be involved in any lawsuits against Carnival in this case. Yes, many people were inconvenienced but most sustained no
Today marks the 4th year Cruise Law has been on Twitter. Check out our page here. Over 10,000 tweets and over 10,000 followers later, it has been a fun four years. Tweeting is just micro-blogging in 140 characters and led me to create this blog Cruise Law News.
If you are not on Twitter
On February 10th the Carnival Triumph’s engine room caught fire fire and was quickly extinguished. No one was burned. No one choked and gasped for air. No one died. No family members mourned the loss of their loved ones or buried their dead.
Three weeks later there is a litigation frenzy with lawyers from New
Go big or stay home, so the saying goes.
This weekend there have been several articles discussing the two lawsuits filed last Friday against Carnival arising out of the Carnival Triumph "cruise from hell." I have thrown in my two cents in television & radio appearances and in a number of local and
