If you have been seriously injured aboard a cruise ship, you may be entitled to money compensation.

There are hundreds of thousands of happy cruise ship passengers through the Florida ports every year, but that does not excuse the big ship owner and his crew from causing you to have a serious injury. When you step on the gangplank, you are entering a sealed world controlled by the ship's crew and management. When you are injured aboard a cruise ship, you are for all practical purposes at their mercy. Each cruise ship accident injury case in Florida comes with its own unique set of facts and circumstances.

Your Florida personal injury case should be examined closely, and time may be running out to file a claim. Unlike many other kinds of injury, like a car accident or a slip and fall in a supermarket, there is probably a one year time limit to file a lawsuit! This is because the ticket you bought mentions that your cruise is subject to the terms and conditions of the terms of passage, which may be found perhaps on the company website. There, in fine print, presented in a sneaky way without bells or whistles, you may find that the cruise ship limits the time to sue them. Yes, in many cases the Florida courts have sided with the cruise ship owner and upheld the time limit. Not always, but many times.

As a Florida personal injury lawyer expert I have had to rush around and file claims at the last minute when a client arrived with a older claim, just a couple of days before the deadline. So, one of the first things you are going to need to do in a cruise ship accident case is to anticipate the need to file a lawsuit, whether you are ready for it or not. There may also be time limit to file notice of the claim, frequently it is something that is required by the conditions of your agreement to be done within 6 months of the accident, by certified mail.

Some problems I have encountered are that the ship's doctor is not always the best note taker, and the medical records of your visit to the ship's doctor may have descriptions that you never expected, maybe statements attributed to you that you surely never would have made.

As a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer with 30 years of experience in Cruise Ship injury accident clams, I have seen a wide variety of cruise ship accidents. The Cruise Boat is used to claims, they have a policy and a procedure for them. When your accident happened, if they became aware of it, you can bet on it that they went and took pictures. Sometimes those pictures do not match the area of the incident. It depends on the individual cruise line. Some play games, others do not.

There have been many instances of multiple cruise ship passengers stricken with mysterious gastrointestinal illnesses and viruses. Sometimes the hygiene in the kitchen or food preparation is negligently inspected or maintained. Cruise ship passengers have been sexually assaulted. It's not always paradise. If you have been seriously injured aboard a cruise ship, you can call me for a free consultation at 888 446 1999.

There will be no charge for lawyer fees of representation or costs of representation if there is not money compensation recovery.