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Passengers Suing Carnival Cruises for Millions over Costa Concordia Shipwreck

Sri Lanka to sue Cyprus company over marine pollution

Glan town in Sarangani sues 11 foreign seafarers for pollution

Plymouth (UK) passengers take cruise ship company to court

Alaska sues over new fuel standard for ships

Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, LLP -- This week, victims of the doomed Costa Concordia Cruise Ship that capsized off the Italian coast in January filed a new Complaint against Miami headquartered Carnival Corp., the builder of the Costa Concordia, for product liability, against Carnival's Miami-based architect for defective ship design and against Carnival for a pattern and practice of concealing and/or delaying notification of life threatening situations to passengers on board their cruise ships, amongst other causes of action. Another claim, alleging wrongful death on behalf of several other parties, is to be filed shortly.

A recent court ruling in Florida leaves shipowners facing the threat of legal action from seafarers who feel that their working conditions at sea have contributed to poor health, both in the US and other jurisdictions, lawyers have confirmed.

Heidmar and Marida Tankers in court for failure to place armed guards on board Failure to place armed guards on a ship which fell into pirate hands has seen Heidmar and Marida Tankers dragged into court by two seafarers.Two assistant engineers from the 13,300-dwt Marida Marguerite (built 2008) filed the complaint in the US suggesting pushing the ship through pirate infested waters violated Jones Act rules.According to court documents Bahri Chirag and Dangwal Sandeep claim the vessel was not seaworthy as it did not have "adequate security, including but not limited to, weapons and non-lethal methods of resisting intruders".It is also suggested the vessel did not have an adequate security system and the crew were not given an adequate security plan.Chirag and Sandeep, who along with their crew mates were held for eight-months, further suggest negotiations with the pirates were not completed in a timely manner.The Merida Marguerite drama was one of the more high-profile and graphic stories linked to Somali piracy.Last month Mohammad Saaili Shibin was found guilty of hijacking the vessel. He is said to be the highest ranking pirate ever convicted.At his trial Oleg Dereglazov, a Ukrainian seafarer on board the Marida Marguerite, said the pirates had ...

Mr John Arthur Eaves hopes this case to force cruise companies to improve their safety standards

The suit calls on the court to award plaintiffs at least $10,000,000 A US law firm said Tuesday it is suing Carnival, the American owner of the cruise liner shipwrecked off Italy this year, for allegedly leading its designers to sacrifice safety for profits.The Eaves law firm said it was suing for punitive damages in California over the design of the doomed luxury Costa Concordia and hoped that a win would see all similarly designed cruise ships declared unseaworthy."This morning we filed a claim for punitive damages against Carnival and the architects who designed the Concordia, for purposefully ignoring safety to maximize profit," lawyer John Arthur Eaves told a Rome press conference.Eaves, who said he is part of a collective of lawyers representing around 150 claimants from the liner, said the ship's design was fatally flawed "because it was top-heavy and had a propensity to roll.""The sad tragedy is the race to build the biggest ship with the shallowest hulls and room for the most passengers. When will it stop? We decided we must file this complaint to stop a race which is destroying safety," he said.The firm alleges Carnival "controlled or at least heavily influenced the design of the ...