Seabourn Cruise Line

Ticket Limitations

Tickets are maritime law contracts through which cruise lines often impose significant restrictions on passengers’ ability to recover damages. Congress has expressly authorized cruise lines to shorten the time period within which to pursue personal injury damages against a cruise line. Like other cruise lines, Seabourn imposes time limit and notice requirements on your ability to pursue a claim through its ticket language. The ticket with Seabourn provides that in cases involving bodily injury, illness, death, or emotional harm claims, no lawsuit can be brought unless you have given written notice to Seabourn within six months from the date of the bodily injury, illness, death, or emotional harm. Furthermore, the ticket provides that you have only one year to file a lawsuit based on the claim, and valid service needs to be made on the cruise line within 90 days of filing the complaint.