ELGAYAR v. NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury aboard the Pride of Aloha, a cruise ship owned by Norwegian Cruise Line.

On April 1, 2006, our client, Mr. Elgayar, was working as an employee aboard the Pride of Aloha. The cruise line provided an engine room with a ramp which was moveable and detached from the top and bottom surfaces. Because of that, the ramp would become loose when someone walked on it and had a propensity to fall. Further, the lighting in the engine room was bad so that one could not tell whether the plank or ramp was properly attached or positioned.

On the day of the accident, our client walked down the ramp and it fell, thus causing debilitating, serious and permanent injuries to our client. Mr. Elgayar suffered a serious knee and back injury from this accident.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

Hickey has testified before Congress about safety and security onboard cruise ships and claims against cruise lines. He is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer by The Florida Bar and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a Past President of the Dade County Bar Association. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar. Hickey has been named by his peers as a “SUPERLAWYER” in the Superlawyer.com publication (the top 5% of all lawyers); as a “Top Lawyer in South Florida” in the areas of personal injury and maritime in the South Florida Legal Guide (2004 to present); and as a “Legal Elite” member in Florida Trend Magazine (2006) (top 1.7% of all lawyers). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Emerging Leaders in America. Hickey is rated A/V by Martindale Hubbell, the international directory of lawyers, a rating achieved by only 5% of all attorneys.

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DOWNES v. J.C. PENNEY CO.

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury caused by a slip and fall inside of a J.C. Penney store.

On or about August 4, 1999, our client, Ms. Downes, in the J.C. Penney store in Westland Mall, doing business at 1655 W. 49th St. in Hialeah, Florida, slipped and fell on a wet floor. J.C. Penney failed to provide any or sufficient warning that the floor was wet. Ms. Downes fell, injuring her right knee.

J.C. Penney breached its duty to reasonably clean and maintain the premises. J.C. Penney was negligent by failing to keep the floor clean and dry to allow normal and safe foot traffic, failing to clean or mop spills or leaks during hours when people were present on the premises, failing to post signs warning that the floor was wet, among other things.

The negligent condition was created by J.C. Penney, or was known to J.C. Penney, or had existed for a sufficient length of time so that J.C. Penney should have known of it.

As a result of J.C. Penney’s negligence, our client, Ms. Downes, was injured in and about her body and extremities, suffered pain therefrom, incurred medical expenses in the treatment of the injuries, and suffered physical handicap, and her working ability is impaired.

As a result, our client, Ms. Downes, has suffered bodily injury and resulting pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, mental anguish, loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life, expense of hospitalization, medical and nursing care and treatment, loss of earnings, and loss of ability to earn money. The losses are either permanent or continuing and Ms. Downes will suffer the losses in the future.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

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ZIEGLER v. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury aboard the Freedom of the Seas, a cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Line provides to the passengers of its cruise ships wave runner tours off of the coast of Labadee, Haiti. In order to provide this recreational activity, the cruise line hires, trains, and provides to its passengers crewmembers who operate other wave runners or personal watercraft which accompany the cruise line passengers on the personal watercraft. The cruise line when training its employees to operate the personal watercraft and to accompany the stream or train of cruise line passengers who are operating personal watercraft, requires that its trainee operate a personal watercraft and ride it immediately behind the lead personal watercraft operator. It also requires that the trainee frequently turn around to watch the cruise line passengers who are operating other personal watercraft. Because the cruise line requires that the trainee turn around when operating the personal watercraft and hold an awkward position looking one way and, as the personal watercraft speeds forward, the operation of that watercraft becomes exceedingly and unreasonably dangerous.

Accordingly, Mr. Ziegler as a cruise line employee and trainee on the personal watercraft was operating in a manner in which he was instructed to operate the personal watercraft. He was instructed as trainee to ride immediately behind the lead personal watercraft and to look back at the passengers. Because of this awkward situation and because of the speed at which he was required to travel, the personal watercraft became out of control and Mr. Ziegler was thrown from the personal watercraft and landed hard on the water, thereby suffering permanent, debilitating, and serious injuries to his neck, back, and shoulder which required surgery.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

SMALLEY v. VILLAGEWALK OF WELLINGTON

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury in the common area in the Villagewalk of Wellington development.

Villagewalk of Wellington owns and maintains and has the responsibility to keep safe a common area behind the home within the subject development. Villagewalk of Wellington chose, allowed, maintained, and certainly knew about the covers for certain underground utilities located throughout the common areas and other areas of the subject properties. Villagewalk of Wellington chose, maintained, and knew about the flimsy lids which do not bolt down or attach in any meaningful way to the covers of the underground sprinkler valves in the common areas behind or adjacent to the yards owned, leased, or occupied by inhabitants of this development,. Further, whenever the maintenance personnel mowed the lawn for or on behalf of Villagewalk of Wellington, the tires to the lawn mowers and/or the blades to the lawn mower caused the valve covers to flip or move off of the valve housing. To make matters worse, the valve housings and their covers are at certain times well underneath the top of the grass and are located on a slope so as to hide or obscure the tops of the valve housings. When the valve covers are off of the valve housings, this allows a dangerous holes, that is, the opening for the sprinkler valve housings, to remain open within a grassy area in which it is expected that people will walk. The holes are large enough to cause someone to trip or to fall or for someone’s foot to get trapped in.

Bristol Management Services Inc. is a Florida corporation which during a certain time period including the date of the accident herein had contracted with Villagewalk of Wellington to manage the common area grounds of the association including the area where the accident occurred. That management took place under a Management Agreement dated December 8, 2005.

Under the Management Agreement, Villagewalk of Wellington had “control of all common area and amenities” including the area where the subject accident occurred. Under that same agreement, Bristol Management Services Inc. was to “assist the Board of Directors” of the Association and “assume[d] the duties associated with the management, operation, and maintenance services of the Association”.

Under the Scope of Services, Bristol Management Services Inc. had the responsibility to provide professional advice on the operations of grounds to the Association and to provide services for the maintenance of the grounds including “lawn and landscaping maintenance”. Further, Bristol Management Services Inc. under the Management Agreement had the responsibility to “hire, pay, and supervise all persons necessary to properly maintain and operate the common areas” as approved by the Association. Such persons may be paid by and be employees of Bristol Management, or may be employees of the Association or independent contractors at the approval of the Board of Directors. Further, Bristol Management Services Inc. specifically undertook and was obligated to “inspect and supervise all services whether performed by Bristol Management or an independent contractor”.

Villagewalk of Wellington allowed this condition of the valve covers to remain in existence for an extended period of time. Villagewalk of Wellington failed to change these covers or demand that they be changed, failed to take steps to provide warnings about these covers or to cordon off the areas where the covers existed, and selected this type of negligent and unreasonable cover in the first place. Accordingly, when our client, Mr. Smalley, walked into the common area behind the property which he and his wife leased, he stepped into the hole and trapped his foot and lower leg. The forward momentum of his walk caused his knee to be injured severely and permanently which has required surgery and has caused permanent disability.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

CONTACT US AND SEE OUR RESULTS AT: www.hickeylawfirm.com and CALL US TOLL FREE AT 1.800.215.7117.

REID v. CELEBRITY CRUISES

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury aboard the Celebrity Infinity, a cruise ship owned by Celebrity Cruises.

Celebrity Cruises provided an unsafe place to work for its crewmembers, including Mr. Reid, to work and Celebrity Cruises was negligent. The cruise line allowed the stairs on Deck 8 onboard the Celebrity Infinity to remain wet, slippery, and dangerous prior to and during a lifeboat drill. The cruise line required its crewmembers, including Mr. Reid, to participate in the lifeboat drill. Of course, when Mr. Reid was walking down the stairs, he slipped and fell down approximately 8 or 9 steps causing serious, permanent, and debilitating injuries. Those injuries included injuries to his knee. As a result of those injuries, Mr. Reid was not stable on his leg and fell and injured his hand.

To make matters worse, Celebrity Cruises failed to comply with its obligation under the Jones Act and the General Maritime law to provide its seamen, Mr. Reid, with prompt and adequate medical care. Celebrity Cruises delayed in providing medical care and then ceased paying benefits altogether despite the fact that Mr. Reid was and is not at maximum medical improvement. This delay in providing medical care exacerbated injuries, extended pain and suffering and disabilities, and have caused further injury. Further, Celebrity Cruises has no reasonable basis for such denial and acted willfully and wantonly in such denial.

Celebrity Cruises has failed and refused to provide adequate medical care or treatment.

As a result of the negligence of Celebrity Cruises, Mr. Reid’s knee and broken hand required surgery.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

CONTACT US AND SEE OUR RESULTS AT: www.hickeylawfirm.com and CALL US TOLL FREE AT 1.800.215.7117.

POTTS v. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury aboard the Explorer of the Seas, a cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Line allowed a step on a staircase on the Explorer of the Seas to remain broken, and removed the step from the staircase itself for an extended period of time. This created an extremely hazardous condition for its passengers and crewmembers ascending or descending the subject staircase. Neither Royal Caribbean nor any of its employees ever cordoned off, roped off, taped off, blockaded, or otherwise prevented passengers or crewmembers from descending the subject staircase.

As a result of Royal Caribbean’s negligence, Mr. Potts descended the staircase on the date of the accident and fell forward into a steel pole or column which was located immediately off the base of the staircase. Mr. Potts fell forward into the column, hit his head, and fell back injuring multiple parts of his body including but not limited to his head, neck, shoulder, mid-back, lower-back, ankle, and foot. This fall caused Mr. Potts to suffer mild to moderate traumatic brain injury which resulted in slurred speech, blurred vision, memory problems and other cognitive and behavioral issues.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

CONTACT US AND SEE OUR RESULTS AT: www.hickeylawfirm.com and CALL US TOLL FREE AT 1.800.215.7117.

NISHIZAWA v. NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury aboard the Pride of Aloha, a cruise ship owned by Norwegian Cruise Line.

This accident occurred onboard the Norwegian Cruise Line’s Pride of Aloha. Norwegian Cruise Line, through persons serving soup, left a soup spill in an area in which crewmembers were allowed to walk. It is apparent that the spill was made by a crewmember in this area. Thus, notice of the dangerous condition, as you know, certainly is not required. However, to make matters worse, the spill was not cleaned up for quite some time after it was spilled.

Later in the day, after the crewmember spilled the soup on the floor, the soup had been only partially cleaned up leaving a slick residue on the floor. This slick residue visually blended in with the rest of the linoleum flooring. The soup was cleaned up but only superficially. That made the spill invisible, but it was still slick and dangerous. Yet no one bothered to post a sign or rope off the area.

This slick residue caused our client, Mr. Nishizawa, to slip. His whole body went up as his feet went out in front of him. He twisted his knee and landed on the left side of his knee which later resulted in surgery and numerous physical therapy visits.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

CONTACT US AND SEE OUR RESULTS AT: www.hickeylawfirm.com and CALL US TOLL FREE AT 1.800.215.7117.

MURGITTROYD v. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury aboard the Explorer of the Seas, a cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

Royal Caribbean on the date of the accident negligently allowed a cleaner, apparently from the deck department of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, to power wash the outdoor deck near the Sky Bar onboard the Explorer of the Seas. The cleaner failed to post any warning signs. He left the area after his cleaning duties. This is in an area where, with puddles of water, was slick as ice. The area was left to remain wet and slippery and to be exposed and open for foot traffic of passengers such as Mr. Murgittroyd. When Mr. Murgittroyd entered the area in order to purchase beer for his wife, he turned from the bar, walked towards the head of the outdoor stairway, reached for the handrail and because of the water, slipped and fell.

Royal Caribbean negligently failed to post any warning signs or any other warnings of the hazardous condition. As a result of the negligence of Royal Caribbean, when Mr. Murgittroyd attempted to walk toward the outdoor stairway, he slipped and fell which caused him to suffer a serious left shoulder fracture.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

CONTACT US AND SEE OUR RESULTS AT: www.hickeylawfirm.com and CALL US TOLL FREE AT 1.800.215.7117.

MCKINNEY V. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE

The following is a description of a personal injury case we have filed. This is a case involving a personal injury aboard the Grandeur of the Seas, a cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Line negligently allowed the floor by the Casino Royale on the Grandeur of the Seas to remain wet and slippery and to be exposed and open for foot traffic of passengers such as Ms. McKinney as a result of an overflowed toilet. Royal Caribbean negligently failed to post any warning signs or any other warnings of the hazardous condition.

As a result of the negligence of Royal Caribbean, when Ms. McKinney attempted to enter the casino, she slipped and fell in the water from the overflowed toilet. This unsanitary water seeped into a wound on Ms. McKinney’s foot causing a massive staph infection that resulted in an amputation at mid-thigh of her left leg.

We are fighting… for the safety and security of you and your family. Making cruise lines, other commercial facilities, and products safer and more secure, one case at a time.

Call us today. All consultations are free and strictly confidential. TOLL FREE: 1.800.215.7117. See our website for information on what to do in the event of an injury on a cruise ship: www.hickeylawfirm.com. See also www.cruiseshipassault.com. The bottom line is get medical care immediately, take photos of the area where you were injured, get the names and contact information of witnesses, and report the accident or incident at once. Also, CALL HICKEY LAW FIRM, P.A., TOLL FREE AT: 1.800.215.7117. Our consultations are always free. We work on a contingency fee basis; if we don’t recover, you don’t pay. Personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assaults, and medical malpractice. This all happens on cruise ships and we have handled these types of claims for 29 years.

CONTACT US AND SEE OUR RESULTS AT: www.hickeylawfirm.com and CALL US TOLL FREE AT 1.800.215.7117.