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Prosecuting claims against cruise ship companies for cruise ship injuries is not for the inexperienced. The laws favor the cruise ship companies by, among other things, requiring claimants pass through hoops not found in other areas of the law. Check your cruise ship ticket. Your cruise ship ticket very likely requires you to pursue any injury claims arising from your cruise ship voyage in either Seattle, Washington, Miami, Florida, or Los Angeles, California. Harris & Moure has experience with cruise ship injury cases in all of these cities and, either working alone or in tandem with experienced local cruise ship counsel, we can handle your case as well. Contracts/Tickets from various cruise lines. We have handled cases against virtually all of the major cruise lines, and against some of the smaller ones as well. We regularly take cases against Holland America, Princess, and Royal Caribbean, and when it is best for our clients, we work with top-flight cruise injury attorneys in Miami and Los Angeles. Peculiar cruise ship injury laws require experienced cruise ship injury lawyers. We know the minefields present in this area of the law and we can help you recover what you deserve for your injuries. If you fail to follow the rules on your ticket, you run the very real risk of the court throwing out your personal injury claim against the cruise ship company. Your cruise ticket probably requires you to file in a very specific jurisdiction (usually Seattle, Miami or Los Angeles) and it probably also requires you to provide notice of your injury (usually within six months of your injury) and file your lawsuit quickly (usually within one year of your injury). Because the courts generally enforce these various provisions, it is absolutely essential that you contact an experienced cruise ship injury attorney as soon as you can. We can assist you with understanding your cruise ship voyage contract and successfully navigating its various onerous provisions. We also can help you figure out how to track down the many companies typically involved with cruise ships, all of whom may be liable for your cruise ship injury. Oftentimes, it makes sense to sue not only the owner of the cruise ship, but the company that chartered the cruise ship, the company that operated the cruise ship and even the company that sold you your ticket as an agent of the cruise ship owner, cruise ship charterer, and/or cruise ship operator. All of these companies may be sister companies to or subsidiaries of the company that owns the cruise ship, interposed simply to make it even more difficult for you to collect on your legitimate cruise ship injury claim. Again, we've been there enough times so that we know how to sort it all out and help you receive full compensation for your injury. Experienced cruise ship Injury lawyers will handle your cruise ship injury case. We recognize that your cruise ship injury is likely to have been unusual, unexpected, and traumatic for you and the last thing we want to do is to make your life any more difficult by putting an inexperienced cruise ship attorney on your case. We will never do that. Unlike most firms, we assure you that our most experienced cruise ship lawyer, Charles Moure, will be lead counsel on every case. Charles is licensed to practice law in Washington state and in Florida and also frequently practices, pro hac vice, in California. Charles graduated from law school in 1992, and received an advanced legal degree (L.L.M.) in Maritime law from the University of Miami in 1995, and has been handling vessel injury cases ever since. Charles was also a licensed seaman so not only is he well versed on cruise ship law, he also brings practical knowledge to each of his cruise ship injury cases. One or two other experienced cruise ship injury attorneys and/or attorneys from our firm typically assist Charles on his cruise ship injury matters. Charles recently won a major cruise ship law decision against Holland America Cruise Lines when the United States Federal Court held that cruise ship crews are required to warn passengers of inclement weather their failure to issue such a warning can subject cruise ship companies to liability. We welcome the opportunity to assist you with your cruise ship injury case. For more information on our cruise ship injury practice, we urge you to contact Charles by pressing the “contact us button” and filling out the form, by e-mailing Charles at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it [Please put Cruise Ship Injury as the subject of your e-mail] or by calling Charles at 206-224-5657. We can handle your claims against cruise ship companies involving any of the following:
We want to help you make right what was done to you on what should have been an enjoyable cruise. We urge you to contact us. Our initial consultations are always free. We welcome your cruise ship injury case referrals. Because of the nature of cruise ship law and because cruise ship tickets frequently require injured cruise ship passengers to bring a lawsuit far from their homes, we frequently work with out of town legal counsel on our cruise ship injury cases. We always welcome the opportunity to work with other attorneys on our cruise ship injury cases. Please note that our practice is limited to only cruise ship personal injury matters; we do not handle cruise ship sexual discrimination lawsuits nor do we handle cruise ship illness cases. Harris & Moure, pllc. You may also wish to view our full firm website, which can be found at www.harrismoure.com. There you will see that in addition to cruise ship law, our firm, Harris & Moure also has a worldwide reputation in other maritime and international litigation. Our cruise ship injury lawyers welcome the opportunity to help you fully recover on your cruise ship injury claim and we have no doubts that we firmly believe we are the right cruise ship injury law firm to do exactly that. |
