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A recent injury aboard the Viking Sun cruise ship lead to the involvement of the Chilean Navy. On Sunday, February 10, a 66 year old female passenger identified as Sheila Eaton suffered a serious head injury. According to a Maritime Herald report, medical aid was provided on the boat. When...
Camp Carnival, which offers onboard activities for kids and teens, is generally a great place for kids to hang out. Every so often however, a child is injured. It's our duty to determine if the injury was 'just and accident' or was the result of something the cruise line or...
A boat drill aboard a cruise ship left one cruise ship passenger forearm injuries which could potentially alter the passenger’s health for the long term. Boat drills, though generally orderly and simple, can include large gatherings of passengers in opens spaces on the boat. The potential for injury does exist....
Let's face it, classic slip and fall injuries are still the main reason why passengers seek the help of cruise ship lawyers. New reports of passengers overboard, Carnival Cruise line flooded cabins and large vessels crashing into docks may grab the headlines, but "slip and falls" still account for the...
Various media outlets -- including the Miami Herald -- report that last week a boat carrying 10 tourists from Royal Caribbean Cruises sank off the coast of Cozumel. Passengers from Celebrity Equinox and Navigator of the Seas were impacted. The 10 tourists literally had to 'jump ship' as the boat...
We find that many of the people we talk to have searched for a Personal Injury Lawyer to help them with their cruise ship accident. What's interesting is that many people don't really know what 'personal injury' means...they've just heard the term thousands of time on billboards, tv, radio and...
Thousands of cruise ship passengers are hurt on their vacations each year. In fact, at our office in Miami, we receive dozens of calls and emails from hurt passengers each month. For example... -- they fell while cruising with Carnival -- the were injured on a Disney excursion -- their...
At Waks and Barnett, P.A. we represent people who were hurt on cruise ships. With over 20 millions passengers and crew members traveling aboard ships around the world each year, it's inevitable that accident happen -- and injuries occur. Sometimes these injuries are caused by accidents that were completely avoidable...
An ACL Tear (a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament) in your knee is not just something that happens to high profile athletes -- it can happen to anyone whose knee suffers intense trauma. For passengers on a cruise ship who suffer an injury from a slip and fall accident,...
Another passenger had to be airlifted from a cruise ship, this time from Disney Cruise Line's Disney Wonder. News reports from today say that... ...a 66-year-old woman was airlifted from a cruise ship after she fell down a flight of stairs shortly after the ship departed Galveston. The Coast Guard...