Island Queen Cruises & Tours (Island Queen) is a popular sightseeing, cruise, and tour company operating primarily in the Miami area for several decades. Island Queen operates out of the Bayside Marketplace and MiaMarina.
Sightseeing and dinner cruise tours are a popular attraction in the Miami area. Unfortunately, each year passengers and crew members aboard cruise ships sustain serious injuries such as:
General Maritime Law governs any claim of injury or death to a passenger or crew member while aboard a sightseeing or dinner cruise tour on navigable waters.
General Maritime Law requires that owners and operators of dinner cruise vessels, regarded as common carriers, owe the duty of reasonable care under the circumstances to fare paying passengers onboard. In certain instances, a passenger’s claim may be supplemented by state law to the extent not inconsistent with well entrenched principles of General Maritime Law. This duty requires the vessel to be kept reasonably safe and that passengers are warned of non-obvious hazards until such time as an unsafe condition can be remedied.
An experienced Island Queen cruise ship attorney at Brais Law Firm can advise you as to your rights after being injured while aboard an Island Queen cruise. The legal team at Brais Law Firm can advise you on the specific laws that apply to your case as well as help you navigate through the legal process to obtain the compensation you deserve. The attorneys at Brais Law Firm not only have specialized experience in cruise ship and maritime law, but also have experience assisting clients with claims against Island Queen specifically.
Some cruise liners have specific venue selection and dispute resolution provisions that they include in their cruise ticket contracts which require you to file a claim in a specific jurisdiction pursuant to the rules provided in the contract, which sometimes may require filing with an arbitrator instead of through the traditional court system. The Island Queen cruise ship attorneys at Brais Law have experience in filing claims against Island Queen and can help you with your claim.
Contact the cruise ship accident attorneys at Brais Law Firm for assistance with your claim today. To reach our lawyers you may click email the firm, call 800-499-0551 from within the U.S., Skype BraisLaw worldwide or click contact us to select and complete a form for a free evaluation of your case.
Your case will be handled by an experienced personal injury attorney who knows what it takes to get the results you deserve. The practitioners at our firm have over 70 years of collective trial experience. Our credentials and qualifications are extensive, including an “AV” Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell and membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. More importantly, we have a first-hand understanding of how insurance carriers operate because we represented clients insured with major insurance companies for nearly 20 years before we made a choice to change sides so that we could help the people who need us most – individuals just like you.
