Posts tagged Maritime Law

• Punitive damages for maritime claims

  Timothy Young | September 17, 2009 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsNew Orleans, LA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  In a most recent United States Supreme Court maritime decision, it was ruled that injured seamen could be awarded punitive damages in addition to their maintenance and care damages. Maintenance...

• Cruise Ship Litigation: Defendants Allowed to Pick Forums, Lower SOLs and not Produce Employee Witnesses

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 21, 2009 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  It’s hard enough to go through the process of filing a law suit against a defendant that stays in one city, state, or country. Things get complicated if you try to proceed against a mobile...

• Hawaii Boat Injuries To Crew: The Jones Act

  Wayne Parsons | April 25, 2009 4:17 PM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  When an employee on a ship is injured, the law that covers the injury is in the category of laws called admiralty or maritime law. A specific law passed by Congress that can be used for an injury...

• Missing Woman At Sea

  Eddie Farah | December 30, 2008 11:25 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Millions of people go on cruises every year and have a wonderful time. Then there are the mysteries at sea which are difficult to solve, largely because no one is watching. The latest mystery...

• Cruise Companies Not Liable for Ship Doctors

  Mike Damaso | October 31, 2007 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal October 24, 2007, titled "Trouble at Sea: Free Agent Doctors". Essentially, the article points out that cruise companies are not being held responsible for negligent medical care aboard their ships. Although cruise ship doctors wear a crew member uniform, render medical care on the ship, and use equipment on the ship, cruise companies...

• Boating Accident Kills One and Injures Another

  Mike Damaso | September 20, 2007 5:33 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An Oviedo man was killed and his son severally injured when they were involved in a boating collision off Port Canaveral early Sunday morning. They were on an overnight fishing trip when, at around 6:40a.m., another boat driven by a man from Merritt Island and carrying two others hit them. No one from this boat was injured. The father was knocked out and the son suffered an injury to his...

• Carnival Leads in Cruisers Overboard

  Mike Damaso | September 19, 2007 5:37 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A study conducted by Ross A. Klein, PhD, a Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, which compiled information from the years 1995 through 2007, reports that Carnival leads many of the major and non-major cruise companies in incidents involving passengers and crew overboard. Between 2000 and 2007, Carnival ship had 26 incidents involving "men overboard". In second place was Royal...

• Cruise Ship Accident Brings Up Question of Seaworthiness

  Staff Writer | July 19, 2006 3:43 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Just two short weeks after our post about boating accidents being on the rise, a really, really, REALLY BIG boat (OK, a ship) was involved in an incident off of Florida's east coast yesterday. The Crown Princess cruise ship accident has been all over pretty much every news outlet since it nearly rolled over Tuesday. The fact that dozens of passengers were injued (some reports report as many as...

• Boating Accidents in Florida on Rise

  Joe Saunders | July 05, 2006 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  This year has seen a 19% spike in boating accidents from last year which had been the highest in a decade. This has state officials worried and searching for answers to stem the tide. During the first six months this year, 38 people died in Florida boating accidents, compared to 32 through the first six months of 2005. In all, 80 people died in Florida boating mishaps last year. The increase...

• Boating Fatalities on Increase in Florida

  Joe Saunders | February 04, 2006 10:36 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  While the rest of the country is seeing fatalities on the water decrease, Florida is experiencing a sharp increase in such deaths. In 2005 alone, the state has recorded 71 boating deaths. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officials, the number one cause of the increase is carelessness on the water. Boating is a recreation that many of us in Florida enjoy. However, we need to be just as...