People ask me why I practice "cruise law." My answer? It’s the most exciting type of law practice possible, like being in a movie – except it’s the real world with real people.
Consider the news in the world of cruising this year.
A showboating and debonair Italian captain runs a $500 million luxury cruise
A newspaper in Savannah reports that yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 63 year old woman from a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 60 miles east of Savannah to a local hospital in Savannah.
Coast Guard Sector Charleston received notification at about around 10:08 p.m. Saturday night from crew members aboard
A family in Kentucky is going to enjoy a family vacation after Carnival reconsidered its cancellation penalty following a vicious attack on young Troy Walter. The teenage was coming to the defense of his friend who was attacked by a knife yielding man now in jail on attempted murder charges.
The family was scheduled to
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
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
A news source in the U.S. Virgin Islands reports that two passengers from the Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship were involved in a serious parasailing accident on Tuesday in St. Thomas.
The incident occurred late Tuesday afternoon while the passengers were on an excursion. One of the passengers died, and the other was seriously injured and remains hospitalized.
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
An Arbitration panel in Miami, Florida has ordered Royal Caribbean Cruises to pay $1,250,000.00 to a crewmember following an injury aboard the Jewel of the Seas cruise ship.
The crewmember, who is from Serbia, sustained a serious back injury in June 2008 when a crew member violently slammed a door into her back while she