Best California Cruise Ship Attorneys Resources

Because Ehline Law offers the best injury attorneys in Los Angeles, California, we are also the best Los Angeles cruise ship attorneys in California. Our local law firm of experienced Princess cruise liner accident attorneys litigate cruise ship rape and cruise line negligence for injured tour boat passengers. . . (Learn More.)

Many Cruise Liners Have Passage Contract Rules to Make it Almost Impossible for You to Recover for Cruise Ship Injuries

When compared with an injury in a typical car crash, maritime law gives the cruise lines the ability to make an injured consumer jump through hoops to get legal justice. Although maritime law covers cruise ship accidents and cruise line accidents, it does not subsume all other laws. There are usually many other local, federal and state laws relating specifically to cruise ships and cruise lines. But the cruise lines are able to use maritime law and international treaties to alter a consumers’ rights in their passage contracts. And that they surely do! 

Many cruise lines have rules that require you to file a claim within a few months, or you can’t sue in court! If you or a loved one a passenger on a Princess Cruise

Liner, or someone who was injured on a Carnival cruise ship, Canaveral cruise line, Celebrity cruise line, Commodore cruise line, Costa cruise line, Cunard cruise line, Disney cruise line, Norwegian cruise line, Princess cruise line, Radisson cruise line, Renaissance cruise line, Royal Caribbean cruise line.

Even if it was a Seaborne cruise line injury, or a mishap or missing at sea case on cruise ships like SilverSea Cruise Lines, or another cruise line, you may be barred from suing unless you act quickly. Cruise ship accidents, as well as cruise line claims, arise in part from admiralty/maritime law, such as . . . (Learn More from Los Angeles personal injury attorneys.)

When only the Best Will Do Contact Our Cruise Ship Accident Lawyer Los Angeles

If you are a Canadian injured at sea, you may need an LA based, or Florida Based attorney. As cruise ship accident attorneys, we are vastly experienced in litigating maritime and admiralty law cases involving cruise lines claims. Cruise Ship Accidents claims are a large part of maritime law that involves cruise ship carriers. Even though much of the general maritime law applies to cruise ship related matters, there are many special laws that apply only to cruise ships claims. For instance, cruise lines sometimes insert special contractual provisions into their passenger boarding passes that are legally allowed under U.S. laws.

Many of these special additions to the passage contract usually shorten the time a passenger has to file a law suit against a cruise line, like Princess for example, to one year or less. The typical statute of limitations for most admiralty and maritime claims is usually three (3) years otherwise . . . (Learn More.)

Cruise Ship Negligence:

Cruise ship accidents, rape, or cruise ship injury, and cruise ship death is caused by cruise ship negligence and recklessness by cruise ship operators who are liable for negligent premises liability and breach of contract. These injuries are on the rise and require special knowledge. . . (Learn More.)

Preserving a Cruise Ship Negligence and Cruise Ship Rape Case

Learn here about preserving a cruise ship negligence and cruise ship rape case. The Ehline law firm is located in Los Angeles, California, just minutes away from San Pedro, California a popular point of departure passenger port in Southern California. Our team of cruise ship negligence attorneys will help cruise ship accident and cruise ship rape victims, wherever they are. Your local. . . (Learn More.)

Passengers Of Cruise Lines
The cruise lines make it difficult for a passenger injured or a wrongful death claim difficult without skilled advice.

Scuba And Commercial Diving Claims
The law firm of Ehline has the experience to represent professional divers, recreational divers and commercial divers who have been injured diving, during decompression or during travel to or from the dive spot.

Maritime Claims By Commercial Fishermen
When working as a commercial fisherman in California or on the West Coast Ehline Law the maritime attorneys can assist in obtaining the full amount of compensation for the injury sustained while working.

Costa Concordia Cruise Injury Attorneys
The captain actions were not geared to protecting the passengers, the passengers had not had their emergency exit class and the crew was not prepared for an emergency evacuation of the ship.

Are Cruise Ships Strictly Liable for Crimes and Negligence of Cruise Lines?
Learn about various aspects of cruise ship law pertaining to common carrier liability, which has been interpreted as “strict liability” for intentional acts of cruise ship employees who commit crimes against passengers aboard sea vessels.

Cure Claims and Maintenance Claims
Seamen that are injured at entitled to cure and maintenance from their employer when they have been injured or become ill aboard ship or sea related.

Government Agency Claims
There are certain types of cases when a lawsuit might be filed against a government agency in a maritime personal injury or a wrongful death.

Claims For Longshoremen and Harbor Workers
The federal Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act protect the person that is injured, this also includes stevedores, crane operators, longshore checkers, and others that work in the industry.

Los Angeles Maritime Attorneys
The Ehline Law firm is able to
assist clients injured in accidents at sea due to their experience in maritime law.

Claims For Offshore Oil and Gas Employees
Offshore oil and gas employees have legal rights. Learn here.

Injury And Wrongful Death Attorney For Seamen
These land based employees have worker’s compensation, temporary or permanent disability after an accident or negligence on the job. Seamen have the Jones Act protecting them to provide damages for negligence on the owner’s part, the master or even fellow crewmembers.

Practice Areas – Admiralty Maritime Law
Admiralty maritime law is an important component in many injured at sea cases. Learn here from experienced cruise liner injury lawyers.

Cruise Ship Accidents Lawyer California
Los Angeles cruise ship accidents law is a difficult ocean to sail. Read here to discover your rights as an injured victim at sea and why you may have to file your luxury liner lawsuit in Los Angeles Courts.

Cruise Ship Negligence
Princess cruise line cases are dealt with in Los Angeles courts. This is why you need to to read this page on cruise ship negligence attorneys in LA if you were the victim of negligence on a cruise vessel.

Preserving a Cruise Ship Negligence and Cruise Ship Rape Case
There are so many instances in the news over the years of missing persons at sea cases and sexual assault like rape by cruise ship employees.

Claims Involving Recreational Boaters
When you have been injured in pleasure boat, small craft or personal watercraft it is possible you have a personal injury claim under the federal maritime law, against the owner, operator, a third party or the government.

Wage and Hour Seamen Claims
The federal maritime law provides seamen with a preferred status for payment of wages and when there is a pay dispute for unpaid wages or overtime the maritime law attorneys Ehline Law can assist with this dispute in Coastal Southern California.

Claims For Charter, Sport Fishing And Ferries
When a passenger is injured on a vessel the statutes of the Jones Act seamen or the cruise ship passenger laws do not cover this type of claim, federal maritime law and admiralty jurisdiction can play part in a maritime personal injury claim involving negligence.

Wrongful Death On The Water
The Jones Act may apply for the person that suffered a wrongful death at sea; the damages that can be recovered depend on many factors.