Maritime personal injury law covers injuries to workers aboard ships, barges, tugs and most other seagoing vessels, as well as passengers aboard pleasure craft, ferries and cruise ships.

Maritime law (sometimes referred to as admiralty law) is unique because it often requires the application of uniform federal maritime law rather than the laws of the state where the incident occurred. Moreover, many cruise ship passenger tickets have shortened time periods for you to bring a claim, require a written notice of claim in advance, and pre-select the court in which you must bring the claim.

Therefore, it is important that you select counsel with a proven record of results in maritime action. Dankner & Milstein has significant experience representing the rights of both workers and passengers in maritime accidents.

We have served on the plaintiff's executive committee in the crash of the Staten Island Ferry, Andrew J. Barberi, on October 15, 2003 and represented several passengers.

Dankner & Milstein has also successfully represented other ferry and cruise ship passengers as well a number of cases brought under the Jones Act on behalf of injured seamen.

As interest in boating, cruising and jet ski use at resorts skyrockets across the country, more people have been injured in recreational boating accidents.

We are familiar with maritime "limitations on liability" actions, the Jones Act, Death on the High Seas Act, shortened statutes of limitations and notice of claim requirements in cruise ship actions and have access to, and have worked with the nations' leading maritime experts.

D&M has also been involved in personal watercraft ("PWC") ("Waverunner" "Jet-Ski" or "Seadoo") litigation and is familiar with the legal theories being asserted in PWC defective design litigation.

An increasing number of cruise ship accidents including assaults by crew members or fellow passengers, food and other toxic poisoning, sexual battery, slips, falls, and injuries while on daily excursions has caused Congress to take a much closer look at the largely unregulated Cruise line industry.

If you have been injured aboard a cruise ship it is important to contact experienced counsel immediately. The fine print on cruise ship tickets usually designate where you can make a claim, require that you notify the cruise line about the accident within a specific time of its occurrence, and may shorten the time to file your claim within one year of the accident.

Call us to discuss the specific facts of your case, without any fee or obligation.