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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....
You suffered bodily harm from being in an accident on a cruise ship - now what? That's the question that many passengers ask themselves after an accident. They're hurt, spending time visiting doctors, facing mounting medical bills...and are just simply frustrated. They're frustrated because of their situation, the pain they're...
Take note, ankle and knee injuries are more common than most cruise ship passengers realize. Serious and painful tweaks, sprains and broken bone fractures can quickly end the excitement of a cruise vacation. As a group of lawyers who help with cruise ship injuries and accidents all of the time,...
Yes - slip and fall accidents on cruise ship accidents do occur - often more frequently than most passengers believe. Cruise ships inherently offer many opportunities for passengers to get hurt. Unfortunately, it's true - passengers get hurt all time - sometimes due to "no-fault" accidents and sometimes due to...
With roughly 20 million people taking cruises every year, how often do passengers return home with an injury sustained while on board the vessel? And of those, how many of those accidents occurred because the cruise line or its crew did (or did not do) something to prevent the accident...
COMMON QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR CRUISE SHIP INJURY Had an accident or injury onboard a cruise ship? Victims of cruise ship injuries are completely blindsided. They are on vacation in beautiful surroundings; it is the time that you would least expect to sustain an injury. And then: disaster. A painful accident. ...
It's a simple fact. Accidents happen on cruise ships. Passengers who have been enjoying their vacation end up getting sick or injured. Sometimes these injuries are the result of simple accidents where no one is at fault - but sometimes these injuries are due to the negligence of the cruise...
As we noted in a recent blog post, 7 Smart Tips to Know Before Booking Your Next Cruise, you can easily get injured or become sick while on a cruise ship. Here is a snippet from that blog post...and it's the 1 easy tip for avoiding injury on your cruise......
In an August 18th news article from the Florida Times-Union, it was reported that a woman fell and broke her leg while aboard the Carnival cruise ship Fascination. Read the full article here at jacksonville.com. It was determined that due to the severity of the broken leg, the passenger needed...