Posts tagged maritime law

• District Court Judge Allows BP Oil Spill Victims to Seek Punitive Damages under Maritime Law

  Brett Rivkind | August 29, 2011 7:00 PM | 2 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  At least as to claims involving economic and environmental losses, a United States District Court Judge in New Orleans made a significant ruling, finding that the United States Oil Pollution Act did...

• Crimes on Cruise Ships

  Brett Rivkind | July 27, 2011 9:06 AM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Associated Press reported a California man has pled guilty in a U.S. Virgin Islands court to drug dealing onboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship the Allure of the Seas. I recently did a blog...

• Twenty Year Old Passenger from Holland America Cruise Ship Still Missing

  Brett Rivkind | July 25, 2011 4:35 PM | 3 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Blake Kepley, 20 years old, was a passenger on a Holland America cruise ship named the Oosterdam and was reported missing since this past Friday. Reports stated that this California man might have...

• Solving Crimes and Disappearances on Cruise Ships

  Brett Rivkind | July 20, 2011 5:53 PM | 1 CommentFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Having represented many passengers who have been the victim of a crime aboard a cruise ship, including sexual assaults, as well as family members who have lost their loved one during a cruise I...

• UK and Philippines Join In Fight for Cruise Ship Legislation

  Brett Rivkind | July 08, 2011 5:39 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Following the aftermath of a 24 year old female UK citizen disappearing while working on a Disney cruise line cruise ship, there are movements toward legislation to increase safety aboard...

• Sexual Assaults on Cruise Ships Fifty Percent Higher Than Canadian Land Average

  Brett Rivkind | July 08, 2011 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An interesting article appears in the Daily Gleaner, out of New Brunswick, Canada, reporting that sexual assaults occur on cruise ships at a rate which is fifty percent greater than sexual assaults...

• Not Guilty! Did the System Work in the Casey Anthony Trial?

  Brett Rivkind | July 06, 2011 6:14 PM | 7 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  At first, you might ask why is the Casey Anthony trial a subject of a blog on my site, which is devoted to discussing issues that are relative to individuals injured and killed at sea? My blog...

• Cruise Ship Victims Unite

  Brett Rivkind | July 06, 2011 5:21 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  International Cruise Victims Association, Inc., (ICV), which is a not for profit corporation, which was formed by victims and families of victims of crimes and other acts aboard cruise ships, issued...

• Seaman's Employment Agreement Void as Against Public Policy

  Brett Rivkind | June 27, 2011 9:52 AM | 1 CommentFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  In the case of Sergio Cardona Bonilla v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Chief Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern District of Florida has ruled that the arbitration agreement in the seaman's...

• Senator Rockefeller Introduces Deep Water Horizon Survivors' Fairness Act

  Brett Rivkind | June 10, 2011 3:20 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  We previously have reported on the harshness of the Death on the High Seas Act, which restricts the recovery to the families of people killed on the high seas to economic losses only. The...