A federal court in Miami, Florida recently awarded pre-judgment interest in the amount of $2,134,229.90 (calculated at $1,157.93 per day) on a jury verdict awarded to a woman raped on a Carnival cruise ship. The federal court jury awarded $10,200,000 awarded two years ago (on July 18, 2022) after a crew member raped the young
A Royal Caribbean stateroom attendant on the Symphony of the Seas was sentenced by a federal court judge to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography.
Arvin Joseph Mirasol, age 34, a citizen of the Philippines, was sentenced in Miami federal court yesterday.
During a cruise from Fort Lauderdale in late February, an adult
Today, our office manager, Betsy Benitez, who has been an integral part of this firm since 2001, suggested that we begin to use Chat GPT. I had never used this technology before and was a bit skeptical about integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into our law practice. So I typed CruiseLawNews into chatGPT and asked
Early this morning, a passenger reportedly went overboard from a cruise ship sailing in the Adriatic Sea, according to several passengers who contacted us today. The Explorer of the Seas was sailing on a seven day Greece-Croatia cruise when what is described as a young man went overboard around 4:30 to 5:00 a.m. (Another passenger
A video of a brawl on the Carnival Paradise as the cruise ship was sailing back to Tampa last month has been circulating for the last two days. Newsweek covered the melee in an article titled “Cruise Ship Fight Video Shows Chairs Being Thrown Amid Chaos.” The magazine states the “6-and-a-half-minute video shows
A fire occured this afternoon on the Icon of the Seas, while the Royal Caribbean cruise ship was docked in Costa Maya, Mexico.
As predicted, the cruise line promptly released the usual talking points that: (1) the fire was “small,” (2) caused “brief” power loss, and (3) was “quickly extinguished.” Fortunately, no one has
Content Warning: This article contains references to child sexual abuse, animal abuse and sexual assault of minors.
Local10 News in Miami reports that a 35-year-old crew member appeared in federal court yesterday after federal agents found child sexual abuse material and bestiality videos on his phone after he disembarked at PortMiami on Sunday.
According to
A crew member reportedly went overboard from the MSC Musica sailing from Italy last Monday evening, according to the popular Cruise Radio fan page which asserts that the unidentified man “jumped.” The MSC ship was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea after departing from the port of Civitavecchia and heading to Genoa.
Cruise Radio does not
Content Warning: This article contains references to child sexual abuse, animal abuse and sexual assault of minors.
Two crew members were arrested last Sunday at PortMiami for possession of child pornography, bringing the total number of crew members arrested in South Florida in just the last five months to twelve. Miami-Dade police arrested the
Early yesterday morning, a cruise passenger went overboard from the MSC Euribia while the cruise ship was sailing in the Sognefjord fjord between Lavik and Oppedal in Norway.
The Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende reports that a passenger “in his late 50’s,” who was traveling with his wife, went overboard around 2:00 a.m. early Thursday morning.