According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Dr. Thomas Connelly, a 68-year-old man and resident of Stuart, Florida in Martin County was windsurfing and heading south on the east side of the Stuart Causeway. Bobby Ray Hall Jr., a 50-year-old man of Little River, South Carolina, was driving […]
Category: Florida Boat Accident Law
A 26-foot boat sank with six men on board during a night fishing trip two miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Wednesday night. A man on a charter fishing boat spotted something in the water and heard a man call out for help. The man called the U.S. […]
14-year-old Brendan Gil along with his father, Alan Gil and his older brother Ethan Gil were participating on a guided jet ski tour near the Caladesi Island State Park on March 30 while on visiting from Lafayette, Colorado. According to investigators of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Alan Gil made […]
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 […]
An interesting decision involving the Shipowner’s Limitation of Liability Act was recently handed down in a ferryboat / speed boat collision case. The accident occurred on February 16, 2013. The ferryboat, carrying approximately five hundred passengers, was ten minutes into its thirty-minute voyage when it collided with the speed boat. […]
