AND TRANSPORTATION.
THE DEADLY CRASH IS RAISING
QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE KINDS OF
EXCURSIONS, WHICH ARE VERY
COMMON ON CRUISES, AND WHAT
KIND OF RISKS PASSENGERS ARE
GETTING INTO WHEN THEY SIGN UP
AND WHAT CAN THEY DO IF
SOMETHING GOES WRONG. HE HAS
HANDLED CASES IN THE PAST,
WHERE CRUISE PASSENGERS HAVE
SUED CRUISE LINES, AND CRUISE
LINES SUCH AS ROYAL CARIBBEAN.
THERE WONDERING, WHAT OF THE
RESPONSIBILITIES THE CRUISE?
THERE ABSOLUTELY CAN BE, BUT
COMPANIES, THE COMPANY OF WHAT
THEY CALL INDEPENDENT
CONTRACTOR, WHICH LEGALLY MEANS
THAT THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE NEGLIGENCE OF THESE
COMPANIES BECAUSE THEY ARE
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.
THE CASES THAT YOU HAVE
TRIED, DO ANY OF THEM INVOLVE
SOMETHING THAT WENT WRONG ON AN
EXCURSION, OR JUST SOMETHING
THAT WENT WRONG ON THE SHIP?
WE'VE HANDLED MANY SHORTSIGHTED
EXCURSION CASE, AND THERE ARE
THEORIES TO HOLD THE COMPANY
RESPONSIBLE, BUT WHAT
PASSENGERS NEED TO KNOW IS THAT
THE CRUISE SHIP COMPANY WILL
TAKE THE POSITION AS THE
COMPANY AS AN INDEPENDENT
CONTRACTOR, AND IN THE FINE
LEGAL PRINT, THAT CRUISE SHIP
COMPANIES COULD SAY THAT THEY
ARE INDEPENDENT THAT IS THE
END.
THERE ARE WAYS TO NAVIGATE TO
THE PAST LEGAL THEORIES TO HOLD
THEM ACCOUNTABLE WHEN SOMETHING
DOES HAPPEN DURING THE
EXCURSION.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR
PEOPLE WHO TAKE CRUISES?
WE HAVE PORT MIAMI AND PEOPLE
ENJOYING GOING ON THE CRUISES,
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR
PASSENGERS?
YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE, FIRST
AND FOREMOST, READ THAT IS THE
COMPANIES ARE GOING TO PLACES
ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN LESS-
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, AND THERE
MIGHT BE DANGERS ASSOCIATED
WITH THESE SHORTSIGHTED
EXCURSIONS.
MAYBE COMPANIES DON'T FOLLOW
THE SAME SAFETY STANDARDS. THE
CRUISE SHIP COMPANY IS SUPPOSED
TO CHECK OUT THE COMPANIES FOR
THEIR SAFETY RECORD AND
HISTORY, BUT OFTEN TIMES, THEY
DON'T DO A GOOD JOB DOING THAT
BECAUSE THEY JUST DON'T SPEND
THE MONEY AND THE RESOURCES TO
DO SO AND A PASSENGER LATER
FINDS OUT THAT THE EXCURSION
COMPANY INVOLVED HAS A POOR
SAFETY HISTORY RECORD THAT THE
CRUISE SHIP COMPANY HAS THE
RESOURCES TO KNOW ABOUT.
AND, TO EITHER ONE PASSENGERS
ABOUT THESE DANGERS THAT ARE
PRESENT IN THE EXCURSION, WHICH
THEY DO NOT, OR MAYBE A DUTY TO
NOT USE SHORTSIGHTED EXCURSION
COMPANIES, OR KEEP THEM YEAR
AFTER YEAR WHEN THEY LEARN
ABOUT A COMPANY THAT HAS A
SAFETY RECORD.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE
RECORDS COULD BE FOR
PASSENGERS, NOT JUST IN A CASE
THAT WE ARE SEEING, BUT IF
ANYTHING GOES WRONG ON ANY SORT
OF VACATION? THE RECOURSE,
FIRST AND FOREMOST, IN THIS
PARTICULAR CASE THE INITIAL
REPORT IS THAT THIS ACCIDENT
WAS DUE TO SEATING, WHICH I
THOUGHT WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS
BASED ON WHAT WE HEARD.
AS AN INVESTIGATION CONTINUES,
WE ARE GOING TO GET TO WHAT I
LIKE TO REFER TO AS THE ROOT
CAUSE, THE SURFACE CAUSE
OBVIOUSLY, THIS DRIVER WAS
SPEEDING WITH A BUNCH OF
PASSENGERS ON A LONG VOYAGE FOR
WHATEVER REASON, BUT THERE'S
GOT TO BE ROOT CAUSES THAT LED
TO THIS ACCIDENT AND I'M
CONFIDENT THAT THOSE CAUSES ARE
GOING TO LEAD BACK TO SOME
RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PART OF
THE CRUISE SHIP COMPANY, AND
THERE SHOULD BE TO THESE
PASSENGERS THAT THEY ARE
PROFITING FROM.
SO READ THE FINE PRINT ON