Navigating A Course To Justice
In 2019, the Norwegian cruise ship Epic crashed into a port in Puerto Rico causing serious damage. Now, everyone is suing everyone else. In this article, we’ll discuss the crash and how it happened. What Happened? A Norwegian cruise liner crashed into the pier at San Juan causing a reported $9 million in damage. The Puerto Rico Port Authority has…
A Charlotte man is suing the owner of a boat from which he went overboard, according to a recent lawsuit filed in North Carolina. The injured party is a man and his two-year-old daughter. According to the man, he was pushing his daughter in a stroller along the gangway when the boat inexplicably began to pull away. As the boat…
Governor Ron Desantis recently called on the federal government to lift cruising restrictions citing tourism shortfalls in the State of Florida. Essentially, Desantis is hoping that the CDC and the federal government will lift the no sail order that’s been in place since April restricting the number of passengers on cruise ships. Desantis said that he wants the individual cruise…
The owner of a scuba diving boat that sank off the California coast after bursting into flames has sold his two remaining boats, likely to satisfy the many wrongful death lawsuits that have been filed against his company. The boats were sold to another scuba diving company. Glen Fritzler, the owner of the boat that killed 34 people, said that…
A federal judge recently ruled that a woman’s injury claim aboard a jetboat is indeed a maritime case after determining that the boat was sailing through navigable waters. Without boring you with the terminology, maritime law applies to navigable waters, not, for instance, waters that cannot be navigated. In this case, the woman raised the point that the waters were…
A trip and fall lawsuit aboard a Carnival Cruise ship was reinstated by an appeals court after the district court tossed the case. A passenger was injured as she was exiting the aerobics room. She sustained injuries to her knee and filed a lawsuit against Carnival for trip and fall. In this article, we’ll discuss trip and fall lawsuits and…
Another couple has joined the cavalcade of litigation against the Carnival Cruises subsidiary, Princess Cruises. If you recall, the Grand Princess and Princess Diamond were among the first hot spots for the coronavirus outbreak. Guests were trapped onboard in their cabins. Later, allegations came out that the cruise line knew that some of their guests had fallen ill with symptoms…
In the very early stages of the pandemic, cruise lines like Royal Caribbean, Carnival Cruises, and others reached out to passengers concerning the pandemic. According to some reports that have resulted in stockholder lawsuits against Norwegian cruises and others were among the companies that downplayed the threat of the coronavirus to both stockholders and potential passengers. This has resulted in…
Bahamas Paradise crew members, who told authorities that they were forced to work without pay, are on the verge of winning a major settlement after a federal judge in Miami approved the terms of the settlement after concerns that the amount wasn’t high enough. The workers were trapped in U.S. waters and the company denied the workers passage back to…
Several Royal Caribbean guests who were severely injured during a volcano eruption in New Zealand have filed a lawsuit against the cruise line for exposing them to that danger. The majority of the litigants are U.S. citizens who were hoping to move the venue to the United States where it would ostensibly be easier for them to get a just…