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Editor: Rod Sullivan
Profession: Maritime Attorney

Category: Cruise Ship Injuries and Accidents

Shipowners owe a duty of reasonable care to passengers. Consequently, passengers who are injured aboard ships may bring suit the same as if they had been injured in a store ashore.

However, suits must generally be brought within one year and most passenger tickets have provisions requiring suit to be brought in either Miami, Florida or Seattle, Washington. Why those two ports? Because thats where the major cruise lines are located. So if you live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and decide to take a cruise, if you get hurt you are going to need to go to Miami to get any relief.