Cruise Ship Accident Lawyer BlogMIAMI, FL— August 18, 2011 – In yet another case of horror on the high seas, a 19-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl during a vacation aboard a Carnival cruise ship in March. According to information provided by Alabama Live, Dylan Cole Bloodsworth, of Mississippi, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse and […]
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Miami Cruise Crime News: Los Angeles Man Admits to Killing Wife Aboard Carnival Cruise Ship
MIAMI, FL—July 19, 2011 – A Los Angeles man who confessed to beating his wife to death during a cruise ship vacation two years ago faces life in prison, as well as a $250,000 fine for the horrific offence. According to information provided by NBC San Diego, Robert McGill, of Winnetka, California, pleaded guilty to […]
Family of Carnival Cruise Ship Passenger Killed In St. Thomas Shootout Sues Cruise Line
MIAMI, FL— June 2 2011 – Claiming that Carnival Cruise Lines failed to consider the potential dangers faced by travelers venturing around the island of St. Thomas, where there has been an upsurge of violence over the last few years, the family of a cruise ship passenger who was shot and killed on vacation last […]
Search Suspended for Woman Who Went Overboard During Recent Cruise
On February 18, 2022, the US Coast Guard announced that it had reluctantly suspended the search for a woman who went overboard a Carnival cruise during an altercation with security. The Miami Herald covered the incident in a recent article, stating that the passenger had been involved in a heated exchange with another guest in […]
Passenger Falls Overboard on Cruise Ship Without a Man Overboard System
On May 23, the U.S. Coast Guard announced it suspended the search for Brian Lamonds, 50, who went overboard a Carnival Paradise cruise ship approximately 85 miles west of Fort Myers, Florida. The cruise ship was traveling from Tampa to Key West, and was close to its destination when the Coast Guard was notified of […]
Child Falls From Ship in Tragic Miami Port Cruise Accident
According to the Miami Dade Police Department and various news sources, earlier this month an eight year old girl fell two stories from an interior deck on the Carnival Glory cruise ship while the boat was docked at PortMiami. Sources reported that the child, from the Bahamas, was on the ship cruising with her family. […]
Teenagers are victims in shipboard assaults
Teenagers are victims in shipboard assaults Our Miami cruise ship injury attorneys see the peril of shipboard crimes such as sexual assault and the law’s inability to address these tragedies. These consequences are alarming for victims under 18 as these media reports show. Cruise line offers apology and trip to assault victim A 16-year-old charged […]
Cruise Ship Drownings
Cruise lines have shipboard accidents unique to the high seas but also experience some of the same problems as hotels and parks on land. Cruise ships, like hotels, did not assign lifeguards to shipboard swimming pools and instead emphasized parental supervision. Some tragedies have occurred. If simple safety measures were in place, then more likely […]
Cruise line sued for Mother’s Day overboard death
Cruise line sued for Mother’s Day overboard death A get-away vacation cruise with girlfriends that was on the victim’s bucket list turned into an unthinkable tragedy for the family of a Carnival Cruise Line passenger. In one of the most serious cruise ship accidents, she fell off the ship and drowned in the Gulf of […]
NTSB Says Human Error Caused Cruise Ship Crash in Baltimore
Last year, passengers on a Carnival Cruise ship were horrified as their vessel crashed into a pier at a harbor in Baltimore. After returning from a weeklong trip to Florida and the Bahamas, the cruise ship approached the pier while traveling too fast, and was unable to avoid a collision. Luckily, no one was injured, […]