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THE 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

It’s happened again. I got a call this last week from a young lawyer who blew the statute of limitations in a case against the cruise line. (I am a maritime lawyer located in Miami, Florida and have 28 years experience with claims against the cruise lines. For the first 17 years of my career, I represented the cruise lines; for the last 11 years, I have represented the injured passenger against the cruise lines).

Anyway, this lawyer’s client had a slip and fall accident on a cruise ship and was injured. The lawyer who called me was located in Miami but was not experienced in cruise ship claims. He did not know about the one year time limit. He dealt with the adjuster for the cruise line himself. The adjuster kept writing the lawyer saying that the lawyer needs to send more documentation of the claim. Then time passed and it was more than one year after the accident. Then the adjuster said the cruise line did not have to pay anything because the deadline had passed. That is called “Gotcha”. Now the cruise line can refuse to pay anything at all. And that is just what they do.

I get calls like this from lawyers (and from the passengers directly) all across the country. (I am a Board Certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer by The Florida Bar and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. I lecture on maritime law and on personal injury claims around the country and get a lot of calls from attorneys in other states). I want to help them and their clients but most of the time I cannot if they have gone over the one year time limit.

Here are the 5 things you should know about any claim against the cruise line for personal injury, slip and fall, trip and fall, or sexual assault or rape:

1. When you are injured on a cruise ship, maritime law applies. Maritime law is a specialized area of the law. Maritime law applies to personal injuries on any vessel (like a cruise ship or gambling boat or tanker or freighter) on a navigable waterway (like the Atlantic Ocean, the Inter-coastal Waterway, any river, or the Caribbean Sea). It applies to Jones Act seaman, that is the people who work on ships, and it applies to passengers on cruise ships.

2. Most lawyers around the country do not know maritime law and have little if any experience with it. Maritime law is something most lawyers around the country do not do and do not know. Most lawyers just do not know the law in this area. They operate assuming the law is just like the law in New York or Illinois or California or Florida, or any other state. It is not. That can be fatal to your claim if a mistake like the one above is made. That passenger will get nothing from the cruise line.

In fact, most maritime lawyers do not handle claims of passenger against the cruise lines. Passenger claims is also a specialty within the maritime law. The law for claims of passengers against the cruise lines is different than the law for claims of the ship’s employees against the cruise lines. In both situations, maritime law applies. But there is a different set of laws which apply to claims brought by the employees (seaman) than for claims brought by the passengers.

Many maritime lawyers around the country know about claims by the ship’s employees (called “seaman” even if the employee is a deck hand or an engine room cleaner or a waiter onboard the ship for example) but know little or nothing about passenger claims. Not knowing the cruise lines and not being a lawyer who represents passengers against cruise lines can also result in you recovering a lost less in your claim. Why? Because if your lawyer does not know what he or she is doing, if your lawyer is not a maritime lawyer who takes these cases to trial here in Miami, Florida, the cruise lines will know this. They will take advantage of this. You may receive nothing as in the case above or you may receive only a fraction of your claim as the cruise lines will know who the experienced lawyers are.

3. YOU PRESERVE YOUR CLAIM ONLY BY FILING SUIT IN THE RIGHT CITY AND STATE. Filling out an accident report and writing letters to the cruise line do not preserve your claim. Writing a letter to the cruise line does let them know about you and your claim. It does not preserve your claim. If you filled out an accident report on the day of the accident on the ship, and if you wrote a million letters to the cruise lines, but you do not file suit within one year, YOU HAVE NO CLAIM AND THE CRUISE LINES WILL PAY YOU NOTHING. This is not to say that you cannot get a settlement in the right case before filing suit. Sometimes you can. But you need to right lawyer in the right city and state to do this.

4. THE CRUISE LINES REQUIRE THAT YOU FILE SUIT AGAINST THEM IN A CERTAIN CITY AND STATE SPECIFIED IN YOUR TICKET. This is called in the law a “venue selection clause”. Buried in the fine print of your Passenger Contract Ticket, back many pages, there is a paragraph about where you have to sue them. It is usually toward the end of the ticket. No matter where you are from, no matter where you bought the ticket, no matter where you got on the ship, this rule applies.

• In all cases against Carnival Cruise Lines, you must file suit in Miami, Florida.
• In all cases against Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, you must file suit in Miami, Florida.
• In all cases against Norwegian Cruise Lines, you must file suit in Miami, Florida.

Other cruise lines specify other cities and states.

5. The right lawyer for your claim against a cruise line is a lawyer who is experienced at bringing claims against the cruise lines, who is located in the city and state where you have to file against the cruise lines, and who is a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. If you have been injured on Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, or Norwegian Cruise Lines, you need a maritime lawyer with experience in passenger claims against the cruise lines and who is located in Miami, Florida. This includes all cases of personal injuries, slip and fall, trip and fall, and sexual assault and rape. Look for the one with experience (with maritime passenger claims against the cruise lines), location (in Miami, Florida), and Board Certification (as a Civil Trial Lawyer).

Hickey Law Firm, P.A. is located in the heart of Miami, Florida. They represent cruise passengers from all over the United States and from around the world. Their clients live in New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Ohio, Minnesota, Florida, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama just to name a few.

John H. (Jack) Hickey was born and raised here in Miami. He represented the cruise lines for 17 years. Now he is on the other side. Hickey is a Past President of the Dade County (Miami) Bar Association and is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer by The Florida Bar and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

No matter where you live, no matter where you got on the ship, CALL TODAY FOR A FREE CONSULTATION: 1.800.215.7117

On January 16, 2008, the Third District Court of Appeal, the mid-level appellate court in the Florida state courts, affirmed a judgment following a jury verdict against Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in the amount of $3,384,185. The jury verdict was for the personal injury of a seaman, a First Officer onboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. The seaman suffered a herniated disc in a fall from a ladder while entering a boat. He received no surgery for the condition but could not work on a ship again. The seaman was represented by John H. (Jack) Hickey of Hickey Law Firm, P.A. in Miami, Florida. (See, www.hickeylawfirm.com).

The story starts when the cruise line required its officers to man a fast rescue boat to provide security to the ship when in the Port of Miami. The United States Coast Guard has written letters to this cruise line and others requesting that they provide such patrol boats each manned with 2 people. Royal Caribbean chose to man each boat with one person and required that its people enter the boats from a broken ladder at the Port. The ladder was a verticle “fixed ladder”. That is, the ladder was verticle and attached permanently to a surface that is to a concrete pier. The only problem was that the last 3 feet or so of the ladder was bent in at a 45 degree tilt from the verticle and the end of the ladder was not fixed or bolted to anything. When First Officer Goran Bakalar went to get into the boat from that ladder for the first time, the boat moved, the ladder moved and he fell back about 6′ down onto his back. He suffered a herniated disc in his back. As a result of that injury, the cruise line said that he could not work on a ship again.

Because Mr. Bakalar was an employee on the ship, he was a Jones Act Seaman. That means that he had all of the rights under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. Sec. 688, et. seq. which means the right to sue for pain and suffering, and the seaman had all the rights under the General Maritime Law. That in turn means that the seaman is entitled to Maintenance and Cure. This is an old expression in the General Maritime Law for the obligation of the shipowner to pay for the medical expenses and for the reasonable living expenses of the seaman until the seaman is declared by a physian to be a “Maximum Medical Improvement”.

Here Mr. Bakalar needed back surgery, which included back fusion at 2 levels. At the time of trial however, Mr. Bakalar had been allowed no such treatment. In fact, the cruise line contended that Mr. Bakalar did not need surgery and that the back condition was merely a bulging disc. The cruise line fought this case for years, and would not settle the case. We went to trial. The jury’s verdict for this injury is a record breaker. The cruise line after the verdict appealed. Interest accrued on the verdict at 9%. By the time the appellate court affirmed, the interest alone which was owed was over $500,000.00. Thus, with interest, the final amount owed after the appellate decision was just under $4 Million. The full amount was paid. Here is the opinion:

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The Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida, January Term, A.D. 2008

Opinion filed January 16, 2008.

Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D06-2960

Lower Tribunal No. 03-24475

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Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.,

Appellant,

vs.

Goran Bakalar,

Appellee.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Scott Bernstein, Judge.

Salas, Ede, Peterson & Lage; Hicks & Kneale and Dinah Stein and Mark Hicks, for appellant.

John Hickey; Elizabeth K. Russo, for appellee.

Before RAMIREZ, SUAREZ, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

PER CURIAM

Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. appeals a jury verdict of $3,384,185 as being against the manifest weight of the evidence. As we recently stated in Glabman v.

De La Cruz, 954 So. 2d 60, 62 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007), “despite the fact that a jury verdict is higher or lower than the reviewing court believes it ought to have been, the court should decline to interfere with the verdict.” Unlike Glabman, Royal Caribbean has not pointed to any highly emotional testimony which caused anyone to cry. We find no abuse of discretion in the trial judge’s refusal to grant a new trial or remittitur. See Lassitter v. Int’l Union of Operating Eng’rs, 349 So. 2d 622, 627 (Fla. 1977) (stating that the court may order a remittitur or new trial if it believes “the amount is so great or small as to indicate that the jury must have found it while under the influence of passion, prejudice or gross mistake”).

Affirmed.

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NTSB HOLDS HEARING ABOUT PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP TILTING

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing about the cause of the accident where a Princess cruise ship tilted or listed on July 18, 2006. This is possibly a significant step in the resolution of this accident. The incident occurred when the cruise ship Crown Princess left Cape Canaveral on its way to Brooklyn, N.Y. This ship is owned and operated by Princess Cruise Lines which in turn is owned by Carnival Corporation which owns Carnival Cruise Lines.

About an hour after the Crown Princess left Port Canaveral, someone in the bridge disconnected the automatic pilot system. He then turned the ship and allowed it to list, i.e., tilt, to starboard, the right side. This list was 24 degrees which is huge. Imagine taking a 13 story building and leaning it over all of a sudden so that everything inside of it comes crashing to one side. The list threw chairs, couches, ice machines, lamps, furniture of all types, glasses, trays, food, hundreds if not thousands of passengers and crewmembers to one side of the ship. The people onboard were hit by and entangled with the wreckage. 298 passengers and crew suffered personal injuries. See more information about the hearing and about the NTSB at www.ntsb.gov.

Hickey Law Firm, P.A. represented many of the passengers who suffered personal injuries from this accident. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury in a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately. Take photos, and document and report everything. This includes reporting it to the cruise line, taking photos, and going to your doctor and whatever specialist he/she sends you to.
Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency basis. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 27 years.
Hickey Law Firm, P.A. is headed up by John H. (Jack) Hickey. Hickey was born and raised in the cruise line capital of the world, Miami, Florida. For the first 17 years of his career, Hickey represented the cruise lines and insurance companies. Now he represents you, the seriously injured, the family of a loved one who has died as a result of someone else’s negligence, the victim of a sexual assault, or the victim of medical malpractice.
Hickey is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer by The Florida Bar and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has been named by his peers as a “SUPERLAWYER” in the Superlawyer.com publication (the top 5% of all lawyers); as a “Top Lawyer in South Florida” in the areas of personal injury and maritime in the South Florida Legal Guide (2004 to present); and as a “Legal Elite” member in Florida Trend Magazine (2006) (top 1.7% of all lawyers). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Emerging Leaders in America. Hickey is rated A/V by Martindale Hubbell, the international directory of lawyers, a rating achieved by only 5% of all attorneys. CONTACT US AND SEE OUR RESULTS AT: www.hickeylawfirm.com and CALL US TOLL FREE AT 1.800.215.7117.