Yes. If your child suffered a brain injury on a cruise ship due to an unsafe sports facility, hazardous recreational area, or negligent maintenance, you may have a claim against the cruise line. Cruise companies have a duty to provide reasonably safe environments for passengers, including children, and may be held responsible when unsafe conditions [...]
Florida Cruise Shore Excursion Injury Attorney By Alex Perkins, Founding Attorney, Perkins Law Offices A shore excursion can be sold to a passenger before they ever board the ship. All the major cruise lines attract customers by promoting all the fun adventures available during the voyage. An excursion can be booked through the cruise line's [...]
Cruise Ship Medical Malpractice: Cruise Ship Failure to Evacuate Injury Lawyer By Alex Perkins, Founding Attorney, Perkins Law OfficesA cruise ship medical emergency is a race against time, and the cruise line controls the clock. When a passenger suffers a stroke, a cardiac event, a severe fall, or a sudden internal bleed hundreds of miles [...]
Can You Sue a Cruise Line for Failing to Arrange a Medical Evacuation? When a passenger suffers a stroke, a cardiac event, a severe fall, or internal bleeding at sea, the single most important medical decision made on that voyage is often not a diagnosis. It is whether the ship's medical staff and command staff [...]
Getting Off a Cruise Early After an Injury Passengers wonder if I'm hurt on a cruise, can I get off the ship before the voyage is scheduled to end? The short answer is yes, in most circumstances you have the right to disembark early for a legitimate medical need. In fact, in many situations, the [...]
Can Cruise Ship Staff Take Pictures of My Shoes After a Fall? Yes, and they almost certainly will. Within minutes of a slip and fall being reported, ship security arrives with a phone or body camera and photographs the deck, the surrounding area, and your footwear before you have had time to process what happened, [...]
Should I Sign a Cruise Ship Incident Report? What Injured Passengers Nationwide Need to Know Before Putting Pen to Paper Every day, cruise lines hand injured passengers a form and ask for a signature before that passenger has spoken to a single attorney. The question is not whether you should report an injury. You should. [...]
Cruise Ship Injury & Claims Lawyers: National Maritime Litigation Built on Duty, Breach, Causation, and Damages A cruise injury case is won or lost on four elements: duty, breach, causation, and damages. Every cruise line's defense team knows this, and every serious cruise injury claim has to be built around it from the first phone [...]
Can I Sue a Cruise Line for Injuries Caused by Poorly Maintained Equipment? Can I Sue a Cruise Line for Injuries Caused by Poorly Maintained Equipment? By Alex Perkins, Maritime Injury Attorney | Perkins Law Offices | Miami, Florida Serving Injured Passengers Nationwide | (305) 741-5297 | No Fee Unless We Win The [...]
What If My Wet Floor Fall Happened on the way to a Shore Excursion? A slip and fall on a wet floor ranks among the most frequently reported injuries on cruise vacations — and when the fall happens during a shore excursion or a transfer to a shore excursion, determining who bears legal responsibility becomes [...]
