Jie Luo, a 21-year-old Colorado State student went missing March 14 after he and four others decided to go swimming jumping off a chartered yacht. Luo and the four other swimmers were part of a group of 16 college students sailing on a charter boat in the Pass-A-Grille channel near […]
Author: Keith S. Brais
This case concerns a passenger who participated in a seven-day cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas cruise ship. The passenger booked a shore excursion through Royal Caribbean to Dunn’s River Falls while the ship called on Jamaica. The local guide was employed by the excursion company told […]
The major cruise lines insert a provision into their crewmember employment contracts requiring any dispute between them and their seamen employees, including personal injury claims, to resolved at arbitration. Often times these employment contracts require the arbitration to occur outside the United States and to apply foreign law. This means […]
A Southern District of Florida judge has recently allowed a case concerning the death of a Carnival Cruise passenger to proceed to the jury. This case involves couple who were passengers onboard the Carnival Dream. The cruise was a round trip Mexican voyage leaving from and returning to New Orleans, […]
Authorities are reporting a 74-year-old passenger on-board MSC Divina is missing and presumed overboard. The man’s disappearance comes just days after a 22-year-old man and a 74-year-old woman went overboard the Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas and the Queen Mary 2, respectively. According to reports, Mr. Jeon Pierre Knorr, […]
