Posts tagged maritime law

• 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...

• 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...

• Cruise Ship Passenger Case for Injury During FlowRider Simulated Surfing Attraction Dismissed

  Brett Rivkind | April 14, 2011 7:28 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  I have previously reported about the enormous size of cruise ships, and how the cruise ships now have many shipboard activities available, such as rock climbing, zip lines, and other popular...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Cruise Lines Have a Duty to Provide Passengers With Safe Transportation To and From The Ship

  Brett Rivkind | April 25, 2011 4:20 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  This article will discuss an interesting Florida case dealing with the liability of a cruise ship company to a passenger for an injury suffered while the passenger was being transported from the...

• Reasonable Communicativeness Test For Enforceability of Clauses in Passenger Cruise Ship Tickets

  Brett Rivkind | April 25, 2011 4:49 PM | 1 CommentFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Many times I will receive a phone call from an attorney asking if the terms and conditions in a passenger ticket are enforceable, including the one year time limitation in which to file a law...