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Over the weekend, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship - the Grandeur of the Seas - cut short its travel plans when 200 passengers and crew became ill with Norovirus. Quick highlights of the story: Norovirus - a frequent passenger on cruise ships these days Norovirus spread throughout Royal Caribbean passengers...
KLFY News reports that a woman was medevaced from the Carnival Cruise Ship Magic by the U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday, Feb. 1. Reports indicate the passenger was a 51-year old woman who was experiencing respiratory problems and requested a medical evacuation. The incident occurred 184 miles off the Galveston, Texas...
Slip and Fall Accident on a Cruise Vacation? With the average age of cruise ship passengers being over 50 years old, even seemingly small accidents can cause severe injury and pain. Especially slip and fall types of accidents where the resulting injury can range from small scrapes and bruises...
Last evening (January 29, 2015) a woman traveling on the Norwegian Cruise Ship, Gem, was medevaced to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. According to a report on the WTKR.com website in Norfolk, the U.S. Coast Guard picked up the female passenger approximately 220 miles southeast of Portsmouth, Virginia....
Even Disney Cruise Lines is not immune to injury claims, this time from a longshoreman who was hurt while working to transfer cargo from the cruise ship to a tractor trailer. Here are more details as related in an article from the Southeast Texas Record, Southeast Texas' Legal Journal... A...
It's been a busy January as the cruise ship industry has been dealing with accidents, incidents and other issues. First, some good news... A private plane flying to Hawaii ran out of fuel, the pilot ditched the plan and was then rescued by a Holland America cruise ship. From KCRA...
Are changes coming to the cruise line industry by federal mandate? We're not sure yet, but according to The Hill which provides breaking news from Capitol Hill and Congress, the Coast Guard is considering new rules for investigating crimes on cruise ships. From a release in Friday, Jan. 15th issue...
Many details still unclear According to various reports, like this one from the Jamaica Observer, two men have gone missing in Jamaica after disembarking from a Carnival Cruise ship that had The men, 42-year-old Shelby Person and 45-year-old Tyrone Rideout, got off the Carnival Victory on January 12 in the...
Injured on a cruise ship and considering whether to go it alone or whether to call an attorney for help? While there are many reasons to hire a cruise ship injury lawyer to represent your interests in a claim against the cruise line, here is one key reason. Attorneys understand...
News reports tell of the Holland America cruise ship Zuiderdam rescuing crewmembers from a sinking vessel in the Caribbean waters near Oranjestad, Aruba on January 3. Per an article in MarineLink.com... At 2:10 a.m. Jan. 3, 2015, while en route to Oranjestad, Aruba, Holland America Line’s ms Zuiderdam answered a...