Port Everglades
Cruise Accident Attorney

All major cruise lines that use Port Everglades as either a home port or a port of call, require that their passengers who get injured on cruises leaving from Port Everglades initiate claims within one year of the date of the incident. Many of these cruise lines will require written notice in advance of the claim being filed.

It is vitally important that the claim be filed within the prescribed one-year time limit in the Federal District Courthouse in Miami. If the claim is filed in the wrong court or outside of the one your time limit, it will be dismissed and the passenger will receive no compensation for their injuries.  

Our port Everglades cruise ship injury law firm has successfully represented hundreds of passengers who have been injured on cruises leaving Port Everglades from around the world. Our firm has nearly 50 years of combined legal experience, holding major cruise lines accountable when they put their profits over passenger safety.

One of the most common types of injuries that we investigate are slip and falls, trip and falls, injuries that occur while passengers are participating in onboard activities such as the FlowRider or artificial surf machine, ice-skating, zip lining, bumper cars, elevator accidents, spa injuries, and children’s injuries. 

In addition to the typical types of slip and fall cases that we investigate on cruises, there are also incidents where passengers are the victim of sexual assault, rape, and other crimes. These can occur both on the ship or on an excursion or in a port of call.

Even if the incident occurs off the ship, the time limit to initiate the claim is still one year from the date of the alleged incident. Because of this we at Aronfeld Trial Lawyers strongly recommend that you contact an experienced maritime personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. Even if you’re still on the ship so that we can help you protect your legal rights. One of the key pieces of evidence that we have found in these types of cases is the CCTV footage. This type of evidence is usually deleted or edited quickly by the ship’s lawyers and security officers and often make it difficult, if not impossible for injured passengers to prove that they were hurt and that their injuries are a result of the cruise line’s negligence. 

This is fundamentally important because under federal maritime law to hold a cruise line accountable for your injuries it must be proven that the cruise line was “on notice “of the dangerous condition before you got hurt. Often this is impossible to prove. What it essentially means is that if a passenger were to slip and fall on a wet pool deck or a defective waterslide the dangerous condition has to have been known or should’ve been known by the cruise line before the incident occurred.

To prove this our lawyers investigate claims as soon as possible so that we can take statements from witnesses, do ship inspections to test the surfaces of the deck, steps, or other locations of the injury, and obtain the CCTV footage.

Assuming that our maritime lawyers are successful at proving that the cruise line had notice or should’ve had notice of the dangerous condition that caused the accident such as a steep gangway, malfunctioning elevator, or other situation, we still would be obligated to prove that the incident “caused” an injury.

Proving the cause of injury is often as difficult as it is proving the reason that the passenger got hurt. That is why our office works closely with experienced experts in the fields of neurology, orthopedic surgery, emergency medical care, and psychology.

We frequently will have our clients examined by our expert consultants to verify what the injuries are, what the reasonable cost of medical care would be as well as what the future prognosis holds for them. Some of the most common types of injuries that the cruise ship passenger injury lawyers see are from accidents that occurred on ships that use Port Everglades are fractured arms and legs, broken ankles, knee, and hip injuries, spine and neck injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and on occasion death.