Personal Injury Law

When cruise vacations end tragically, who's to blame?

Posted on January 08, 2009
Despite High-Profile Deaths, The Cruise Industry Defends Its Safety Record The idea of going over the side of a cruise ship is horrifying. One minute a person is safely on deck, and the next the passenger has plunged several stories...

Charles Lipcon On Possible Dangers on Cruise Ships

Posted on January 07, 2009
Subject: Charles Lipcon On Possible Dangers on Cruise Ships Program: Fox & Friends Airdate: January 1, 2009 View Clip [Windows Media]...

Search Called Off For Missing Carnival Employee

Posted on January 01, 2009
Passengers, Crew Say Man Fell, Did Not Jump MIAMI -- The coast guard has called off the search for a man who fell off a Central Florida-based cruise ship on Thursday. Rescuers spent two days looking for the man after...

Cruise passenger reported overboard near Cancun

Posted on December 26, 2008
Salon.com Dec 26th, 2008 | MEXICO CITY -- Three Mexican Navy boats and a helicopter were searching the waters off the Caribbean resort of Cancun on Friday for an American woman who reportedly fell from a cruise ship, authorities said....

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Cruise Ship Lets Off Passengers to Avoid Pirate Threat

Posted on December 10, 2008
Fox News A cruise ship headed for the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden docked Wednesday in Yemen to let off hundreds of passengers so they could bypass the dangerous waters by plane before rejoining the ship at its next port of...

Expedition ship carrying Americans runs aground in Antarctica

Posted on December 05, 2008
USA TODAY Another small expedition ship that caters to adventurers has run aground in Antarctica. The 84-passenger Ushuaia, an ice-strengthened vessel that spends five months a year in the region, was near the entrance to Antarctica's famed Wilhelmina Bay when...

Cruise Passengers Describe Gunfire Hitting Ship During Pirates' Hijacking Attempt

Posted on December 03, 2008
Fox News MUSCAT, Oman ? Ordered to get inside and stay down, Oregon tourist Clyde Thornberg heard the pirates' rifle shots hit the side of the luxury cruise liner ? "Pop! Pop! Pop!" ? then felt the ship accelerate to...

Use common sense precautions aboard

Posted on October 19, 2008
BY JAY CLARKE MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS You're off on a long-dreamed-of vacation, a cruise to the sunny Caribbean. You're on a big cruise liner with a couple thousand other passengers. There are doctors and nurses on board, locks on your stateroom...

Mysterious Disappearances On Cruise Ships

Posted on October 06, 2008
HungZai.com October 6, 2008 The cruise industry says that more than 30 passengers have disappeared from ships in the past five years - and these figures exclude those known to have been suicides or drunken accidents. When the QE2 docked...

Royal Caribbean wants you to pay a $15 surcharge for red meat

Posted on October 06, 2008
In great news for cows but another blow for vacationers, the cruise vacation giant Royal Caribbean has elected to charge $14.95 to anyone who orders New York strip steak in the main dining room. Eat all you want, the line...

Take precautions on a cruise ship

Posted on September 25, 2008
CharlotteObserver.com By JAY CLARKE September 15, 2008 You're off on a long-dreamed-of vacation, a cruise to sunny Caribbean islands. You're on a big cruise liner with a couple thousand other passengers. There are doctors and nurses on board, locks on...

Staying safe while on a cruise

Posted on September 21, 2008
New book: Passengers shouldn't leave their common sense behind Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 - 12:01 AM By JAY CLARKE MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS You're off on a long-dreamed-of vacation, a cruise to sunny Caribbean islands. You're on a big cruise liner with...

Cruise safety

Posted on September 07, 2008
MiamiHerald.com BY JAY CLARKE You're off on a long-dreamed-of vacation, a cruise to sunny Caribbean islands. You're on a big cruise liner with a couple thousand other passengers. There are doctors and nurses on board, locks on your stateroom door,...

It's not all fun, food and foolin' around on cruise ships

Posted on August 21, 2008
Cruises are marketed as the perfect place for a holiday. Pampering and self-indulgence have been perfected, and whims and wishes are satisfied with minimum effort. In 2007, over 12 million Americans decided to travel on cruise ships; unfortunately most were...

Cal Boating releases safety report

Posted on August 21, 2008
According to the 2007 California Boating Safety Report, 39 of the 55 victims who died in state boating accidents were not wearing life jackets. The Department of Boating and Waterways (Cal Boating) report provides data about boating accidents, injuries and...

Cruise Bruise For Mobile

Posted on August 21, 2008
Cruise Bruise announces the launch of their new Cruise Bruise For Mobile web site. Designed in 320 screen resolution, the new web site is perfect for the Blackberry, with nice, large, easy to read font text and links with easy-surf...

Final sail: SeaEscape says its 21-year run at Port Everglades is over

Posted on August 12, 2008
Company expected to leave Port Everglades after 21 years By Jaclyn Giovis and Scott Wyman South Florida Sun-Sentinel Day cruise operator SeaEscape says its 21-year run at Port Everglades is over. A company spokesman told the Broward CountyCommission today that...

Feds indict Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens

Posted on July 30, 2008
Original posting at 12:57 p.m. ET: Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has been indicted by a federal grand jury, according to MSNBC and McClatchy newspapers. As we reported last year, federal agents searched the veteran lawmaker's residence in Alaska as part...

InsideTrack: The Love Boat: Exciting and Contagious

Posted on July 30, 2008
They don?t call it the Love Boat for nothing. But there?s another side of those carefree flings aboard cruises that no one really talks about, but are found in the steamy filings of Miami federal court. Meghan Burtt of New...

Worthless paintings puchased on cruise ship

Posted on July 28, 2008
Joshua M. Entin Sarasota real estate agent David Bouverat resisted buying art for most of his cruise. But he ventured out after dinner toward the end of his Baltic Sea voyage with a few drinks in him and viewed art...

Outrage over 2006 Egypt ferry disaster acquittals

Posted on July 28, 2008
CAIRO (AFP) ? Scuffles erupted at an Egyptian court on Sunday when five of six defendants were cleared of blame for a 2006 ferry sinking in which more than 1,000 people died, Egypt's worst maritime disaster. Hysterical relatives voiced anger...

Widows of 'Princess' crew refuse P20,000-death benefit

Posted on July 24, 2008
By CARINE ASUTILLA ABS-CBN Cebu CEBU CITY - Widows of crewmen of the ill-fated M/V Princess of the Stars of Sulpicio Lines Inc. (SLI) on Thursday called out to families of the other crew members to refuse at least in...

Review: No Safe Harbor by Joe Burnworth

Posted on July 24, 2008
Todd and I were sitting in the airport in Turks & Caicos waiting to go home, and I was talking to a couple that had been on the Aggressor with us. They had met on the Belize Aggressor III, when...

Injured sailor rescued at sea by cruise ship

Posted on July 21, 2008
Written by Ken Borsuk, Greenwich-Post.com Staff Reporter Having learned to love sailing as a child, Greenwich resident Hillary Bercovici never expected that a simple trip from Bermuda would turn into a medical emergency for him, necessitating a rescue at sea...

Coast Guard Detains Cruise Ship

Posted on July 17, 2008
A 637-ft. cruise ship detained by the U.S. Coast Guard has moved to the Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal from Pier 92 in New York City and will continue repairs to fix hull damage and numerous discrepancies found during a recent...

Cruise Ship Passengers Rescued After Fall From Princess Cruise Liner

Posted on July 15, 2008
By Otto Smyth, LawFuel.com According to reports by Princess Cruise Line accident lawyers at Ehline Law, a spokes person for Crown Princess, Julie Benson have released information in the latest cruise passengers to go overboard on one of their ships.....

Key residents points out hazards of taking a cruise in new book

Posted on July 07, 2008
Islander News In his new book, Unsafe on the High Seas: Your Guide to a Safer Cruise, veteran maritime lawyer Charles Lipcon exposes the seamy underbelly of the cruise industry, calling attention to the litany of potential problems that may...

Cruise Ship Crime Sparks Demands for Law

Posted on July 02, 2008
By Joan Delaney Epoch Times Victoria Staff When Merrian Carver went missing on the second day of a Royal Caribbean cruise to Alaska in 2004, her family members say they weren't notified by the cruise line. In fact Kendall Carver,...

Only Bodies Found Under Capsized Ship

Posted on June 24, 2008
SAN FERNANDO, Philippines - A coast guard diver searching for survivors Tuesday inside a ferry that capsized in a typhoon found bodies and a bit of comfort ? a plastic rosary floating in the water. Lt. Cmdr. Inocencio Rosario slipped...

Woman alleges rape on ship

Posted on June 22, 2008
BY ERIKA BERAS MiamiHerald.com On a day when lawmakers in Washington heard stories about crimes on cruise ships, a Florida woman filed suit against Carnival claiming she was raped by a fellow passenger on a cruise ship in February. The...

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