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	<title>Maritime Trial Lawyer and Personal Injury Attorney John H. (Jack) Hickey - Miami-Dade County, Florida</title>
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		<title>Costa Concordia Victims Would Benefit by Filing Suit in Italy</title>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Certain victims of the Costa Concordia sinking have filed a class-action lawsuit in Florida.  Although Costa Cruise Line headquarters are in Italy, owner Carnival Corp. is registered in Florida, and plaintiffs in the civil suit are hoping the Florida courts find jurisdiction is proper and accept their class action claims. They may have an uphill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruise Ship Dangers</title>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[After the disaster aboard the Concordia last month, the cruise industry is finally getting some much needed scruntity. We have been saying for years that the industry has a top-notch public relations program, which serves to help the industry avoid much of the criticism which is rightly deserved in many situations. A New York Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SC Man Who Died on Cruise Ship Identified</title>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A South Carolina man has died aboard the Carnival Cruise Ship &#8220;Fantasy&#8221; after apparently trying to jump from one floor of the cruise ship to another. According to Police in the Bahamas, the man fell to his death. The man has been identified by Royal Bahamas Police as 26-year-old Walter Bouknight. The incident occurred last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hickeylawfirm.com/blog/sc-man-who-died-on-cruise-ship-identified/</link>
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		<title>10 Months Estimated To Remove Concordia</title>
        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Expect to see the capsized ship Concordia sitting in the waters off the coast of Italy for many months to come.  Experts have suggested it may take up to 10 months to remove the ship from the coast, due to delicate preparations that must be made in order to do as little damaget to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17 Confirmed Dead , 15 Still Missing From Concordia Disaster</title>
        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Concordia continues to be a pain for all involved. Divers are continuing to search the vessel for bodies, with 17 bodies having been discovered, and 15 still missing. The search effort was halted as the ship began to slip recently, but has since been resumed.]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary On Damage Caps</title>
        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Shame on the parliaments of all of the countries and of the EC which have adopted the Athens Convention.  The Convention imposes across the board damage caps for claims brought by passengers against cruise lines.  What does the passenger get in return?  Nothing.  That is why the Athens Convention really should be called the Cruise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hickeylawfirm.com/blog/commentary-on-damage-caps/</link>
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		<title>Crew Member Mistreatment</title>
        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it true that you, the cruise line, under the maritime law, have an obligation to provide medical care to the injured crew members until they reach a plateau in their healing known as maximum medical improvement? Is it true that there have been instances when the treating doctor in the crew member&#8217;s home country&#8211;usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: Cruise Industry Likely To Face More Scrutiny</title>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been saying for years that the cruise industry maintains one of the best public relations operations of any industry in the world.  Accidents are often under reported, if they are reported at all.  Passengers go missing, are raped and sexually assaulted by cruise line employees, and are injured in large numbers.  But, these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hickeylawfirm.com/blog/reuters-cruise-industry-likely-to-face-more-scrutiny/</link>
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		<title>-Video- Workers To Pump Oil From Wrecked Ship</title>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[As the wrecked cruise ship Concorida sits in one of Europe´s most pristne marine habitats, preparations began today to remove a half million gallons of fuel from the ship.  The race is on to remove the fuel before it leaks into the pristine Tuscan Sea.  Today workers were seen attaching a barge to the ship, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hickeylawfirm.com/blog/video-workers-to-pump-oil-from-wrecked-ship/</link>
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		<title>Two More Bodies Found As Concordia Search Continues</title>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports indicate that two additional bodies have been found in the wrecked cruise ship Concordia, bringing the total number of confirmed dead to 15. The bodies, which were reportedly recovered today, were of two women. There are reportedly 17 people still missing as a result of the accident. Meanwhile, according to ABCNews.com, two Americans remain [...]]]></description>
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