New case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but for now the opinion in the case of One Beacon Insurance Company v. Crowley Marine Services, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 15620 and can be found here.
August 2011
New Cruise Injury Case From Eleventh Circuit – Crist vs Carnival Corp.
By Mark M. Murakami on
Attention Cruisers: this is your Captain speaking.
Your ticket says that you have a one year statute of limitation if you get injured. It also says that you have a choice of law and have selected a forum to bring your claim.
The Eleventh Circuit says, “Ignore them at your risk.”
The case is Crist…