Personal Injury Law

Tourist feared dead after falling from cruise ship

Posted on December 24, 2010
A British tourist is feared dead after falling overboard on a Caribbean cruise, according to reports. An unnamed 50 year old woman fell from the balcony of her cabin on the Sea Princess, which was sailing between Curacao and Grand Turk islands. CCTV images showed her falling into the sea...

Fort Myers man dies in N.J. boating accident

Posted on December 24, 2010
CAPE MAY, N.J. - Officials say a Florida man had just purchased a boat that sank off the southern New Jersey coast, killing him and leaving a second man hospitalized. New Jersey State Police Sgt. Steve Jones says 62-year-old Gregory Arlotta, of Fort Myers, Fla...

Injured cruise ship passenger expected home soon

Posted on December 23, 2010
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A cruise ship passenger being treated at a Tampa hospital after a fall on the boat is expected to be home for Christmas. The wife of 46-year-old Andrew Spicer told the St. Petersburg Times Thursday that he's in good condition at Tampa General Hospital...

Three Leslie women among passengers of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship tossed about Mediterranean Sea during storm

Posted on December 21, 2010
Lucille Eldred?s 80th birthday celebration aboard a cruise ship on the Mediterranean Sea turned out to be more eventful than she and two friends could have ever imagined. Eldred, Joanne Herendeen and Deborah Urban, all of Leslie, were aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise liner that was tossed around during a heavy storm off the coast of Egypt last week...

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Injured man airlifted to Tampa hospital from cruise ship

Posted on December 20, 2010
A 46-year-old man was evacuated from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter Saturday night, authorities said. Andrew Spicer needed further treatment after he suffered undisclosed injuries after falling from a Holland America cruise ship, the Coast Guard said...

'Survivors' Of Rough Cruise Return Home To Columbus

Posted on December 19, 2010
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- One dozen Central Ohioans returned home Saturday after a rough ride on the Mediterranean Sea this week. Family and friends gathered at Port Columbus International Airport to welcome home the group dubbed "survivors" of Royal Caribbean's "Brilliance of the Seas" cruise...

Airboat flips; two men taken to hospitals

Posted on December 18, 2010
Two men are being treated for injuries after their airboat ejected them near the Brevard-Volusia county line early today. The men had been riding the airboat over mostly dry ground about 7:54 a.m. near Hatbill Road and Baxter Point in Mims when the boat overturned and ejected them, according to Brevard County Fire Rescue...

British tourists injured as Mediterranean cruise ship hit by heavy seas

Posted on December 14, 2010
Thirty passengers were injured yesterday as a cruise ship carrying more than 300 British and Irish holidaymakers was battered by heavy seas in the Mediterranean. Passengers described how they were tipped out of bed amid smashing glass and upended chairs and tables as the Brilliance of the Seas was buffeted by high winds and heavy swells on its way to the port of Alexandria in Egypt...

Cruise Ship Tilts in Storm, Dozens Injured

Posted on December 13, 2010
(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) -- The Royal Caribbean cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas tilted several times in its approach to Alexandria, Egypt, Sunday. The ship entered a storm and listed several times around 2:15 a.m. local time, inflicting minor injuries to about 30 passengers and damaging some of the public areas...

Coast Guard: Cruise cut short for boy with symptoms of appendicitis

Posted on December 11, 2010
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. - The Coast Guard says one of their rescue helicopter crew medevaced a 13-year-old boy off a cruise ship Saturday. It happened approximately 40 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras. Watchstanders say they got the call around 8 a.m. from the crew aboard the cruise ship Norwegian Jewel...

Cruise ship rescues 6 Cubans from sinking raft

Posted on December 09, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the status of six people who were pulled from a homemade raft and onto a Royal Caribbean cruise ship near the Bahamas. On Sunday evening, as Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas was returning from CocoCay, Bahamas, to Cape Canaveral, Fla...

Two dead, six missing in Hong Kong after boat collision

Posted on December 09, 2010
Two men have died and six are missing after two commercial vessels collided Tuesday off the east coast of Hong Kong, the city's marine department said, as it expanded an air and sea rescue operation. At about 3:15 am, police received a report about a sand barge with 14 crew on board colliding with a container vessel with nine crew, a department spokesman told AFP...

DRAMATIC VIDEO: Cruise Ship Battered in Real-Life 'Perfect Storm'

Posted on December 09, 2010
In dramatic new video posted by a television show "Russia Today," a cruise ship on a nightmare voyage is shown being battered by waves near Antarctica. According to the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators, the ship in question, the MV Clelia II, was sailing on Tuesday with 88 American passengers and 77 crewpersons aboard when it ran into bad weather and was hit by a massive wave, which doused electrical systems and broke the starboard bridge window...

Antarctic cruise ship limping to port in Argentina

Posted on December 08, 2010
BUENOS AIRES ? A large wave slammed into an Antarctic cruise ship with 88 American passengers and 77 crew members aboard, but the ship's crew overcame minor damage and was heading safely back to its scheduled port on Wednesday, the vessel's operator said...

Safety officials issue warning after explosion on Cunard's Queen Mary 2

Posted on December 03, 2010
British safety officials today are warning cruise lines and other companies that operate ships with large electric motors to check their machinery in the wake of a little-publicized explosion earlier this year on Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2. In a safety bulletin issued today, the UK's Maritime Accident Investigation Branch says the Sept...

Steven Posner, one other, killed in Biscayne Bay boat crash

Posted on November 29, 2010
Real estate tycoon Steven Posner died Monday in a high-speed boat crash that killed another man and critically injured his cousin. Steven Posner's daughter, Dr. Kelly Posner-Gerstenhaber, confirmed Monday evening that her father died in a boating accident earlier that day...

Brimble death prompted safety reforms on ships, says P&O

Posted on November 29, 2010
US-STYLE legislation requiring rape kits on board, peepholes in cabin doors and a central crime register could be implemented in reforms of the cruise ship industry, P&O has said. The cruise operator is expected to tell the inquest into the death of Dianne Brimble today it has already instituted a wide range of reforms to ensure the problems that occurred would not happen again...

New Law Targets Dangers Aboard Cruise Ships

Posted on November 28, 2010
Missing persons. Assault. Child molestation. Rape. Death. Those are some of the extras the cruise ship lines don't tell you about. The industry suffered a black eye for the recent nightmare cruise aboard the Mexico-bound Carnival Splendor, but that's just a small sampling of the safety issues plaguing one of America's favorite vacation modes, victim advocates say...

Carnival Cruise Ship Death Investigated

Posted on November 23, 2010
The Carnival Liberty cruise ship has returned to South Florida after a 36-year-old female passenger was found unconscious in her cabin. Medical aide tended her on the cruise ship, but she was pronounced dead 2 hours later. The cruise was headed to St...

Bandits hold up cruise ship tourists in St. Kitts

Posted on November 15, 2010
Authorities in St. Kitts say two masked gunmen have held up a tour bus, robbing 16 cruise ship passengers of their cash and cameras. No one has been harmed. Police say the tourists from the Celebrity Mercury ship were traveling to the Brimstone Hill Fortress, a park popular with visitors...

Feces on the High Seas: What is Your Cruise Ship Dumping?

Posted on November 11, 2010
Full disclosure: I don't ?cruise.' The idea of boarding a moveable city and being forced to share every meal for a week with friendly strangers does not sound like fun to me. Add ship morgues, and the fact that U.S. ships are now required to have sexual assault forensic specialists on board, and I think we're dealing with something that looks a lot more like purgatory than a carnival...

Nearly 4,500 passengers, crew stranded on cruise ship off Mexico

Posted on November 09, 2010
Nearly 4,500 passengers and crew on a seven-day cruise to the Mexican Riviera were stranded off the coast of Mexico after an engine room fire cut power to their ship. Tugboats and an aircraft carrier were headed out to help Tuesday. The Carnival Splendor was some 320 kilometres south of San Diego when the fire started early Monday morning, according to a statement from Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines...

Highly recruited doctor joins UI to cure blindness

Posted on October 26, 2010
Budd Tucker worked on his father's commercial boats from the age of 12 to 23, fishing for shrimp, red fish and halibut. The Newfoundlander spent months at a time on the Atlantic Ocean at depths up to 1,200 fathoms above the ocean floor off the coast of Greenland...

Cruise Ship Collides with Cargo Ship in Shanghai

Posted on October 18, 2010
Passengers aboard the Costa Classica got a scare when the 1,300-passenger cruise ship was damaged in a collision with a cargo ship during an Asia cruise. Some minor injuries were reported among passengers, Italian cruise line Costa Cruises says. The accident occurred in the Yangtze River as the cruise ship returned to Shanghai from Cheju, Korea, reports Seatrade Insider...

Cruise bartender sentenced to prison for teen's rape

Posted on September 30, 2010
A cruise ship bartender charged with having sex with a 14-year-old girl who was vacationing with her parents was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison Thursday. Hery Krispiyanto, 30, was sentenced in Orlando federal court for the one count of sexual abuse of a minor he pleaded guilty to in June...

Passenger admits to sexually assaulting young girl on Disney ship

Posted on September 27, 2010
A New York man has admitted to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl while aboard a Disney cruise ship. USA TODAY sister paper the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle today reports Lucas Wickes, 25, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court to abusive sexual contact on the high seas, a felony that carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison...

Coast Guard airlifts man injured on cruise ship

Posted on September 26, 2010
ASTORIA, Ore. ? The Coast Guard has airlifted one man from a cruise ship 100 miles west of Astoria who suffered head and back injuries after a fall in his cabin. Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Parker says the 69-year-old man, whom the Coast Guard did not identify, was in stable condition at Oregon Health and Science University after the Friday evacuation...

Chinese man to be charged over cruise ship death

Posted on September 26, 2010
HONG KONG ? A 47-year-old man from mainland China will appear in a Hong Kong court Monday on a charge of murder over the death of a woman who last week fell from a cruise ship, police said. A police report said the man was arrested Friday after the 43-year-old woman fell into the sea off Waglan Island, near the eastern edge of Hong Kong's territory, a special autonomous region in southern China...

Gambler jumps from cruise ship after losing $857,500 in casino

Posted on September 22, 2010
HONG KONG - A 51-year-old man from mainland China died when he jumped off a 13-deck cruise ship after losing HK$5 million ($857,500) at the baccarat table, according to The Standard newspaper. The gambler, identified by police only as Xu, jumped from the Star Cruises vessel SuperStar Aquarius as it sailed back to Hong Kong from international waters on Sunday, the report said...

Ga. Woman Hurt in Fla. Parasailing Accident Dies

Posted on September 13, 2010
CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. - A Lawrenceville woman injured in a recent parasailing accident in Clearwater Beach, Florida has www.myfoxatlanta.com

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