Cruise Ship Accident

Personal Injury Lawyer

Cruise Ship
Loopholes

Cruise lines can try to limit your rights or completely release themselves from premise liability with the pages and pages of fine print at the bottom of your ticket. In addition, clauses and specifications can release the cruise line from injuries occurring shore side on any outing at the place you port.

Still, if you or any of your friends and family or you are injured on the cruise ship premises or on an excursion ashore, you should contact the personal-injury law firm of Neufeld, Kleinberg, & Pinkiert right away.

Cruise ships often can include language in their release forms and the fine print of their tickets that limits the statue of limitations to just 1 year (requiring that the cruise line be notified of any potential claim within six months!). Any claim after that period will likely not be accepted.

Your Vulnerabilities
Aboard

More often than not, your family will be safe aboard a cruise ship. In spite of loopholes available to them, it behooves cruise lines do to their level best to make sure their passengers are safe and protected. However, here are a few of the personal vulnerabilities you should be aware of when boarding a cruise:

• Most cruise ships are registered in a country other than the United States.
• Most cruises travel into international waters where US Law may not apply
• International Maritime Law often applies when, for example, an incident occurs between individuals from two different countries on a ship registered in a third country along waters belonging to a fourth country
• Until December 2014, few cruise ship related crimes were ever reported. however that law changed requiring cruise lines to disclose their crime stats.

Most people that choose to spend the time and money to relax for a few days on a trusted cruise line do so with the assumption that they and their families are safe. If an injury has occurred on such a trip, contact the personal injury attorneys of Neufeld, Kleinberg, & Pinkiert right away to start the conversation as to how we can pursue the fullest compensation for you and your family.