News at MSB Law

If there is a silver lining in the black Coronavirus cloud hanging over all of us it is that we are getting outdoors, exercising, and spending more time with our families. Instead of getting up early and going to the gym, rushing home to shower and g ...

Many of us, like you, have older parents and loved ones who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.  Our elderly and these nursing facilities were one of the areas hardest hit by the outbreak of COVID-19. There are a large number o ...

Emergencies produce moral questions with no good answers. Broward County is facing one. Two cruise ships, the Zaandam and the Rotterdam of Holland America Line, are expected to reach Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, April 1, and requ ...

Many people wonder whether if they or a loved one contracts Coronavirus, they have a personal injury claim. The short answer is perhaps but a number of conditions have to be met for such a claim to be viable and if they recover from their illness wit ...

In my office, just above the light switch by the door hangs a worn brass plaque with the Latin phrase “Illegitimus non Tatum Carborundum” which means “Do not let the Bastards wear you down.” It was a gift early in my legal career, I cannot re ...

In another recent victory for our firm, the Eleventh Circuit held that general maritime law does not allow the spouse of a cruise passenger to recover loss of consortium damages. Loss of consortium refers to the deprivation of a family relationship d ...

The Supreme Court held that crewmembers cannot recover punitive damages for claims of unseaworthiness, resolving uncertainty in this area of the law and resolving a split among the federal courts. Relying on Miles v. Apex Marine Corp., 498 U.S. 19 ( ...

Our trial lawyers are two for two this year in successfully defending cruise lines from passenger overboard cases involving allegations of excessive alcohol service. A Miami federal judge entered a defense judgment for a cruise line in a lawsuit alle ...

A Miami federal jury returned a verdict in favor of a cruise line represented by Mase Mebane & Briggs, P.A. in a lawsuit alleging the cruise line was responsible for the death of an overboard passenger. The passenger’s family alleged that the c ...

A Miami federal judge recently granted a cruise line represented by us summary judgment in a case involving allegations that a four-year-old passenger suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling through a deck guardrail. The firm proved that the ...

In a decision believed to be the first of its kind, an appellate court in the Philippines held that a cruise line crewmember’s tort-based claims were subject to the arbitration agreement in his employment contract. The cruise line paid death benefi ...

Thanks to Chris Lyons and team, Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry will not face charges after a Florida state attorney decided not to file charges after investigating an incident that occurred in March. ...