Cruise vacations should be relaxing getaways, yet they often contain hidden risks. From food poisoning to security breaches, many incidents on cruise ships can be traced back to negligence.

Our maritime lawyers understand how to take on cruise lines and fight hard on your behalf to get you the compensation that is owed to you.

Slip and Fall Accidents

Slip-and-fall accidents on cruise ships can result in life-altering, debilitating or fatal injuries that change lives forever. Accidents like these may arise from spilled beverages, unaddressed maintenance issues or lack of lighting on walkways and staircases – any number of factors could contribute to these incidents.

When a ship has slippery floors or stairs, its crew must quickly clean them while also providing prominent warnings when areas may be wet or potentially hazardous – this is part of their obligation to ensure passenger safety while sailing with them.

Cruise lines must also monitor weather conditions and ensure that areas exposed to rough seas are either closed off or stabilizers extended as necessary, violating maritime law and constituting negligence. An experienced maritime attorney can help injury victims navigate these complex matters and secure fair compensation for their losses.

Medical Negligence

Cruise ships may offer the ultimate luxury experience, but they can still pose serious dangers to their passengers and crew alike. From security flaws that allow unwanted assaults by other passengers or crew to food-borne illness outbreaks – cruise ship travel can cause serious injuries that need medical treatment.

Medical negligence is a frequent cruise ship issue for maritime lawyers to resolve. Like doctors on land, those practicing within cruise ship infirmaries must meet a standard of care; should they fail in doing so and cause unnecessary harm to patients as a result, then liability could lie with the cruise line itself.

Eyewitness testimony, camera footage and security records can all play an integral part of proving these types of cases successfully. Your lawyer can use them to prove the duty and breach elements of your case and help secure compensation for economic or noneconomic damages that have occurred.

Fires

Cruise ship fires can be extremely hazardous, often resulting in catastrophic injuries. They frequently start when welding or maintenance tasks are conducted without complying with proper safety standards; or when people work in confined spaces such as when docked.

Assaults by crew members or passengers on cruise ships are unfortunately all too common, often caused by ineffective vetting processes of employees and by failing to take steps that ensure unruly passengers don’t gain entry ontoboard.

Criminal activity on cruise ships is more widespread than many realize, yet often goes unreported and remains unresolved by law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. Furthermore, passengers frequently fall overboard on these voyages. If you believe you’ve been victimized by such activity it’s crucial that you contact an experienced maritime lawyer as soon as possible – Mark J Leeds of Leeds Law Group can provide the legal guidance necessary for getting justice on your behalf.

Unsafe Excursions

No matter what caused your injuries – be it from a faulty outlet that sparks fire, or from a rug becoming a trip hazard – cruise ship staff has an obligation to provide adequate care and address any risks as soon as they become apparent; otherwise they could become responsible for injuries that arise as a result. If they fail in doing so, they could become legally liable.

Shore excursions are another common cause of cruise ship injuries. Passengers often assume the activities promoted by cruise lines are safe; however, this is not always the case – hiking through dangerous ruins and scuba diving with inadequate supervision may lead to severe injuries for passengers participating.

Even when cruise lines attempt to assure their passengers by assuring them of the care taken when selecting excursion companies, this may not always be true. If you are injured on a shore excursion trip it is imperative that you retain an experienced maritime lawyer immediately as this can help hold those responsible accountable.