Woman Seriously Hurt on Carnival Cruise Ship

Reports from MyFoxBoston.com tell of a New Hampshire woman who was seriously injured while aboard the Carnival Cruise Ship Victory. The report was posted Sept. 14, 2015. According to the report, the woman from Pembroke New Hampshire was traveling with her boyfriend. The injury occurred during a fall in which...

Sue Carnival Cruise Line Still Heavily Searched by Passengers

The phrase "sue carnival cruise line" is still one of the most searched phrases that eventually lead visitors to our website (based on information from Google Analytics). Each month, dozens of people search for "sue carnival cruise line" or "cruise ship injury lawyer" when they've either had an unpleasant experience on...

Fire On Carnival Cruise Ship Liberty

A fire broke out on Monday, Sept. 7  aboard Carnival Cruise's Liberty. Apparently the fire started in one of the ship's engine rooms. No one was injured in the fire. Passengers and crew were safe. The first began while the cruise ship was docked on the Island of St. Thomas, according...

Real Cruise Ship Passenger Injuries from August 2015

Real Injuries Happen to Real People At Waks and Barnett, P.A. we speak with cruise ship passengers each and every week about their injuries. Our firm is a cruise ship injury law firm and we work for our clients to help them get compensation from the cruise lines for accidents...

Should I Call a Cruise Ship Lawyer While I’m Still On My Cruise?

Hurt and need legal help? YES! You can call from the cruise... We've been asked this question before, "should I have called a lawyer while I was still on the cruise ship?" The answer to that is, "if you could have, then yes, you should have." People are hurt on...

Contacting a Cruise Injury Lawyer A Good First Step

With 20 million people cruising each year, something is bound to go wrong Cruise ships are essentially floating cities. Day in and day out in ports all across the world, cruise ships and passengers disembark on what are generally enjoyable, relaxing vacations. For most people, the cruise vacation is just...

Carnival Crewmember Charged With Molesting Teen Ship Passenger

According to police in Florida, a Carnival Cruise crewmember was arrested August 15th for allegedly sexually abusing a teenage passenger. As reported by NBCNews.com: Yovany Suazo-Batiz, 46, a steward on the Carnival Valor, was arrested when the ship docked at Port Canaveral, east of Orlando, according to a statement from...

2 Crew Members Hurt in Cruise Ship Lifeboat Accident

According to a report by KHON2 in Hawaii yesterday (July 28, 2015) "two men were hurt while lowering a lifeboat from the ship when the lines gave way". The accident happened on Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America cruise ship which was docked in Hilo (the Big Island). Per the article...

Concerns from Injured Passengers and Crew

Our cruise injury law firm is contacted each week by both passengers and crew members who have suffered injuries. Some of these injuries are caused simply by accidents. Some are caused due to the negligence or lack of care on part of the cruise line or its employees. And, some...

Fire, Rape and Assault: Another Crazy Week for the Cruise Industry

Another interesting week has passed with the cruise line industry seeing a wide ranges of incidents across multiple cruise lines. Fire on a Royal Caribbean ship. Rape on a Celebrity Cruise. And a crew member on crew member sexual assault on another Celebrity vessel. Fire on Cruise Ship Freedom of...