When the Ship Sails In The Balmoral took to the sea from Southampton, England with the “Old England to New England” cruise scheduled to last 34 days. In early May she docked in Portland, Maine with 252 of 919 passengers suffering from the Norovirus, mostly UK citizens. Usually found on cruise ships, …
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On October 1, 2015 the cargo ship El Faro was caught in Hurricane Joaquin and sunk while on course for San Juan, Puerto Rico from Jacksonville, Florida. Subsequently, all 33 crew members were lost. The U.S. Coast Guard led a two-week hearing concerning all of the details surrounding the tragedy, cal …
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Human Rights at Sea Organization Now Tracking All Missing Persons at Sea Admiralty law, and it’s practitioners like Jones Act lawyers and maritime attorneys have been influential in protecting the rights of seafarers and maritime laborers. Recently, fishermen have been added to the records that docu …
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The Sad State of Affairs Over the past year and a half, the shipping industry has experienced big changes that may affect the rights of maritime workers, the laws protecting them, and the companies that employ them. The economic slumps in the EU and China have affected the container shipping industr …
READ MOREMaintenance and cure covers sickness and injuries such as when a seaman trips and falls on board a vessel, injuring his leg or back. But does maintenance and cure cover an illness that is not so apparent in so far as it is asymptomatic? In other words, is a ship company liable for the illness of a w …
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You may suppose that if you are injured then fired from your job, your recovery for lost wages is limited to the time you were disabled. Well that’s a common assumption. But rest assured, there may be more available within the scope of economic harms in your case. In a negligence matter, the Jones A …
READ MOREWould you choose a drunk driving lawyer for a divorce? I bet not! So why would someone in their right mind go to a non-maritime lawyer for a maritime or Jones Act matter? You presumably want to find an maritime attorney that will most zealously and vigorously represent you in your serious matter. Ma …
READ MOREThis was an action under the Jones Act for negligence and general maritime law for unseaworthiness against the Defendant Shipowner. Plaintiff, the cook, was born on October 9, 1954. She was divorced in 2008, has three daughters between the ages of 30 and 40. She completed 11t …
READ MOREMaintenance and Cure is the Maritime equitable doctrine that was promulgated to protect a seaman from being abandoned by his vessel after disability or injury. It is roughly the equivalent of worker’s compensation for land workers. And the notion of unearned wages under the Maintenanc …
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