Posts tagged maritime law

• Cruise Ship Law News Update

  Brett Rivkind | May 15, 2012 5:17 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Some recently interesting developments in the maritime law field. It was reported that there was a large settlement reached in the case involving a Philadelphia duck boat that was involved...

• Arbitration Clauses in Seamen's Employment Agreements Depriving Seamen of Right to Jury Trial

  Brett Rivkind | April 28, 2011 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  We are seeing an increasing number of arbitration provisions in employment agreements with seamen. Traditionally, seamen bring claims pursuant to a Federal Statute known as the Jones Act, 46...

• Cruise ships: Bigger The Better?

  Brett Rivkind | April 01, 2011 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  I have been handling Maritime Personal Injury and Wrongful Death cases involving the cruise ships for 28 plus years and have been amazed not only at the increase in the cruise ship business over...

• 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...

• 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...

• Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Offers Passengers "All You Can Drink" Deals

  Brett Rivkind | April 25, 2011 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Everyone knows when you go on a cruise ship you are going to eat a lot because there is an unlimited amount of food made available as part of the price paid for the cruise. Royal Caribbean has...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Federal Appellate Court Rules On Right To A Jury Trial In Admiralty And Maritime Case

  Brett Rivkind | April 01, 2011 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It is necessary to start this article with a little bit of background about Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction, and the proper forums such claims can be filed in. Over the 28 years plus I have...