Personal Injury Law

Legal tangle over teen's death at sea

Posted on July 18, 2010
Croatia, SA, Ukraine and Britain all involved - maybe Lawyers are scratching their heads over the death of a South African cadet, 19-year-old Akhona Geveza. The teenager died on June 24, while on board Safmarine Kariba. What makes the case so complicated is that the ship is registered in Britain, it was in Croatian waters when Geveza died and, shortly before her body was discovered, she alleged she had been raped by a chief officer on the vessel, who is Ukranian...

SA woman hires US firm to pursue rape case

Posted on July 18, 2010
A South African beauty therapist who was allegedly raped while working on a cruise liner in the Caribbean has engaged a US law firm to fight her case. Port Elizabeth-born Taryn, 30, who requested that her surname not be used, said she was forced to leave the industry after her ordeal aboard the liner owned by Royal Caribbean International...

Cruise ship passenger visiting St. Thomas killed during gang shootout

Posted on July 13, 2010
A 14-year-old cruise ship passenger was killed Monday during a visit to St. Thomas when she reportedly was caught in the middle of a shootout between warring gangs. The Associated Press reports the girl, Lizmarie Perez Chapparro, was struck by...

New bill on cruise ship safety, security

Posted on July 02, 2010
WASHINGTON, Del., July 2 (UPI) -- A bill awaiting President Obama's signature means cruise ships must improve security and safety measures, officials say. Under the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act, cruise ships must install peepholes on cabin doors, install...

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New York man fined $5,000 for sexual assault on cruise ship

Posted on June 30, 2010
A New York man yesterday admitted sexually assaulting a teenage girl on the cruise ship the Norwegian Dawn while he was at dinner with his wife and son. James Arismends, a 53-year-old insurance salesman, was fined $5,000 after he was...

Man charged with fondling boy during cruise

Posted on June 25, 2010
PITTSBURGH -- Federal investigators say a western Pennsylvania man charged with molesting a boy on a cruise ship admitted he took the trip so he could have a sexual encounter with a child. A federal judge in Pittsburgh ordered 71-year-old...

Royal Caribbean statement on alleged fondling incident on cruise ship

Posted on June 24, 2010
Royal Caribbean released the following statement today about the alleged fondling incident in December on the line's Liberty of the Seas: "Royal Caribbean maintains a zero tolerance policy regarding any criminal activity onboard our ships. Any allegation of a crime...

Man Sexually Abused Boy In Cruise Ship Jacuzzi

Posted on June 24, 2010
A Beaver County man is accused of sexually abusing a young boy in a cruise ship Jacuzzi. Federal prosecutors used surveillance video of the suspect to hold Sherwood Stevenson, 71, of Clinton for trial. Investigators said Stevenson booked a cruise...

Royal Caribbean loses suit, must pay $1.7 million over fall

Posted on June 23, 2010
Nine years after he slipped on stage during rehearsal, cruise ship trumpeter Steven Pavone won a $1.7 million verdict against Royal Caribbean for the fall. A Miami-Dade jury awarded the 40-year-old the money for the August 2001 accident, which was...

5 Killed after Ships Collide off Northeast China

Posted on June 22, 2010
Five sailors drowned and two more were missing after a Cambodian freighter collided with a Panamanian cargo ship and sank off northeast China's Liaoning Province early Sunday morning. Nine crew members were aboard the Cambodian flagged HAIJUNG when the accident...

Leading Miami Maritime and Personal Injury Law Firm Changes Name to Lipcon, Margulies, Alsina and Winkleman, P.A.

Posted on June 21, 2010
[MIAMI-June 22] Lipcon, Margulies, Alsina & Winkleman, P.A. is the new name for the prominent Miami law firm previously known as Lipcon, Margulies & Alsina, P.A. The firm which began as a sole proprietorship nearly 39 years ago represents cruise...

Will the Cruise Ship Industry Do BP's Dirty Work

Posted on June 16, 2010
After a BP refinery in Texas exploded in 2005, killing 15 workers and injuring scores more, the oil giant paid $1.6 billion in settlements to employees and their families. But the families of the workers killed on BP's Deepwater Horizon...

Father, daughter injured in parasailing accident

Posted on June 10, 2010
MIAMI -- Authorities with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say a father and his 6-year-old daughter visiting from Chicago were injured while parasailing. The accident happened early Monday evening in the waters off of downtown Miami...

Senate Unanimously Passes Matsui Bill to Extend Critical Consumer and Safety Protections to the Traveling Public

Posted on June 10, 2010
SACRAMENTO (OBSNews.com) ? Today, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation authored by Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) in the House of Representatives and championed by Senator John F. Kerry in the Senate. H.R. 3360, the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act,...

Citrus County: Man badly injured in boating accident

Posted on June 10, 2010
Citrus County, Fla. - A man was badly injured when he fell out of a boat on the Homosassa River Wednesday night. The man, who deputies say is in his 20s, was run over by the boat's propellor. The call...

Cruise ship passengers say they were swindled in onboard art auctions

Posted on June 10, 2010
Are cruise ship art auctions fair or foul? It's a hot topic these days among cruisers -- and one the Detroit Free-Press today is taking a hard look at in a lengthy front-page story. The sister paper to USA TODAY...

Teen in critical condition after boating accident

Posted on June 04, 2010
A 13-year-old boy is suffering from severe injuries after he was involved in a boating accident Thursday. "He fell into the water. The vessel was not able to stop on time, and the vessel just ran over the young man,"...

Cruise ship bartender accused of raping teenage girl

Posted on June 03, 2010
ORLANDO - A cruise ship bartender is accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old passenger in April 2009. According to court documents, the teenage girl said 30-year-old Hery Krispiyanto pulled her into a room aboard a Carnival ship, touched her inappropriately...

Ponce Inlet Florida Boat Crash: Pregnant woman, father killed in boat wreck

Posted on June 03, 2010
A boat collision at an aqueous Memorial Day hot spot took the lives of a father and his pregnant daughter Monday, May 31, 2010. The tragic two-boat wreck happened near Disappearing Island in Volusia County, Florida, as reported by ClickOrlando.com....

Brain injuries not created equal: Why Bret Michaels lived while Gary Coleman's hemorrhage was fatal

Posted on June 02, 2010
Both men were relatively young when they were sidelined by a traumatic brain injury. Yet actor Gary Coleman succumbed last week at the age of 42, and rocker Bret Michaels, 47, is back on the scene, fresh off his "Celebrity...

Must-See Cruise TV: Starring Oasis of the Seas, Sea Princess and More

Posted on June 02, 2010
It seems the folks over in TV Land are almost as excited about the summer cruising season as we are! We recently learned from Cruise Critic member Tag Boy that, in December, the Discovery Channel filmed a program called "Mighty...

Bartender Accused Of Abuse Aboard Cruise Ship

Posted on June 02, 2010
A cruise ship bartender is accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old passenger last April. According to court documents, the teenage girl said 30-year-old Hery Krispiyanto pulled her into a room aboard a Carnival ship, touched her inappropriately and raped her...

Man, pregnant daughter killed in Florida boating accident on Memorial Day

Posted on June 01, 2010
PONCE INLET ? A busy Memorial Day holiday at the beach along Volusia County turned tragic when two boats collided in Ponce Inlet, killing a DeLand-area man, his adult daughter and the woman's unborn baby. The crash occurred when a...

Carnival cruise ship bartender accused of raping teen to make Orlando court appearance

Posted on May 31, 2010
A bartender on a Carnival Cruise Line ship accused of raping a 14-year-old girl who was vacationing with her parents will make an appearance in Orlando federal court this week. Hery Krispiyanto, 30, will be arraigned Wednesday on a count...

BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak

Posted on May 29, 2010
Under the new plan, BP would use robot submarines to cut off the damaged riser from which the oil is leaking ROBERT, La. - BP has failed in its latest attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of...

Crew Member on Oasis of the Seas Goes Missing

Posted on May 26, 2010
The world's largest cruise ship, the 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas, skipped a port call at St. Thomas yesterday to search for a crew member who went overboard. A Royal Caribbean spokeswoman confirmed the crew member, who is not yet...

Cocaine Bust on Cruise Ship in England

Posted on May 26, 2010
British news outlets are reporting authorities have made a sizeable drug bust on the Italian ship MSC Opera. The ship was visiting the Port of Dover in England, on its way from Brazil to Amsterdam. The reports say eight Latvian...

Investigation: Crimes on Cruise Ships Often Not Reported

Posted on May 25, 2010
Local Victims Hope Laws At Sea Will Change Team 5 Investigates has learned that cruise ship companies are not required to report crimes committed on board if their ships are 12 or more miles from shore. It?s a painful lesson...

Fire Forces 600 to Evacuate German Cruise Ship

Posted on May 24, 2010
A fire broke out on in the machine room of a German cruise ship at the Norwegian port of Eidfjord on Sunday. 600 people on board had to evacuate. The fire started on the "MS Deutschland" while it was docked...

Boating Accident Victim Recovering in La Crosse

Posted on May 22, 2010
An Onalaska man is recovering at Gundersen Lutheran after being injured in a boating accident in Florida earlier this month. 35-year-old Jason Baldner was a passenger in a boat that hit a sea wall at a high rate of speed,...

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