Royal Caribbean International

The cruise industry trade organization, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), announced with great fanfare a new lifeboat training policy. This is a result of what CLIA is calling the cruise industry’s "operational safety review" after the Costa Concordia disaster. 

Every six months, the CLIA cruise ships will conduct lifeboat drills.  The lifeboats will be lowered

This week was another interesting week in the strange world of cruise law.  Just consider:

A Cruise CEO With Billions of Dollars But No Soul?

Carnival Cruise’s CEO Billionaire Mickey Arison was named the richest man in Florida again by Mickey Arison - Carnival Cruise CEO - Billions for him - Peanuts for Crew Fortune magazine with a net worth of $4,100,000,000.  So why does he pay his injured and ill crew

In 2008, a scandal broke out in the Miami legal community.  Royal Caribbean Cruises discovered that one of its employees in its risk management department had been bribed by a local law firm  – the Wingate Law Firm – to divulge the settlement authority authorized by the cruise line’ s underwriters to settle crew member cases.

The bribery allegations involved a