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On Oct. 11, Cruise Law News reports that, "the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York alleged yesterday that a cruise passenger, identified in court papers as Carlos Batista Jr. of Elmhurst, New York, assaulted his girlfriend and choked her until she passed out during a...
A short video taken by a passenger on Royal Caribbean's Empress of the Seas captured Hurricane Michael's outer bands as the ship traveled near was near la Isla de Juventud, Cuba on Oct. 8 a few days before the hurricane made landfall in the Florida panhandle. Live look: @RoyalCaribbean’s #EmpressoftheSeas...
According to news reports in The Star and The Mirror, two women traveling aboard a Fred Olsen Cruise Lines ship were killed after being struck by a vehicle. The two women, were apparently stepping off a tour bus into traffic when a driver hit them and another passenger. The third...
According to KATU.com in Oregon, "A 77-year-old woman was medically evacuated from a cruise ship in Oregon waters after suffering a stroke. The U.S. Coast Guard said a crew airlifted the woman from the Grand Princess cruise ship Saturday morning about 55 miles southwest of Newport, Oregon." The incident occurred...
Earlier this month, Eric Newman of Topeka, Kansas was indicted for the second degree murder of his wife, Tamara Tucker. According to the Kansas City Star, the indictment said Newman was traveling with Tucker on board a cruise ship called the Carnival Elation on Jan. 19. Court records didn’t specify...
According to the Coast Guard website, the Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod aircrew medevaced a 78-year-old man Saturday (Sept. 22) from the cruise ship Norwegian Escape after he suffered a possible stroke 40 nautical miles south of Nantucket. The crew of the Norwegian Cruise Ship notified Coast Guard watchstanders...
A news release from the U.S. Coast Guard stated a woman was medevaced from a Holland America cruise ship near Ketchikan, Alaska on Thursday (Sept. 13th). According to the statement, A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Ketchikan medevaced the 71-year-old passenger displaying stroke symptoms and brought her...
Can you sue Royal Caribbean for a concussion or severe head injury that occurred while you were a passenger aboard their ship? Well...it depends. Filing an injury claim against Royal Caribbean or suing the cruise line will depend on a number of factors, all of which would be discussed with...
The Orlando Sentinel reports that, "Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Escape docked in Port Canaveral with more than 4,000 people Tuesday morning after the cruise line was forced to redirect the ship away from an itinerary that took it to Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean." Read the entire article here: Cruise...
CentralMaine.com reports that, "a cruise ship originally bound for Bermuda briefly docked in Portland to avoid the oncoming Hurricane Florence, and more could arrive this week. The Oceania cruise ship Insignia made the unplanned stop Monday to steer clear of Florence, which is barreling toward the Carolinas and is expected...