How to Recover Compensation for a Silversea Cruise Injury
Getting compensation from negligent cruise lines is often challenging, and our attorneys can help victims with all aspects of the recovery process.
To help you recover compensation for an injury from Silversea Cruises, turn to our lawyers. We can work to preserve onboard evidence from the ship, like surveillance footage, incident reports, and records from medical staff, as well as eyewitness statements. We can send notice of claims within six months of accidents, which must precede filing lawsuits in court. Our attorneys will oversee settlement negotiations and possible trials, helping victims navigate the recovery process so they get the damages they are entitled to.
Call Rivkind Margulies & Rivkind at (305) 204-5369 to get a free case evaluation from our cruise ship injury lawyers.
How Can You Recover Compensation for a Silversea Cruise Injury?
Recovering compensation from Silversea Cruises for an onboard accident and injury is a multi-step process that starts with you reporting the accident and seeking immediate medical attention. As quickly as possible, contact our attorneys so we can start investigating the case and preserving evidence. While you recover physically, our lawyers will track your damages, file your lawsuit, and negotiate a settlement or prove liability in court.
Report the Accident and Your Injuries
Accidents and injuries on cruises vary dramatically. A passenger might fall overboard in the most severe circumstances, triggering search and rescue efforts. In other instances, victims might suffer similarly serious traumatic brain injuries when falling onto lower decks due to faulty guardrails. Though accidents due to negligence cause many injuries, so do intentional assaults by crew members or non-passengers who enter the ship due to negligent security. What matters most after suffering injuries is reporting them to the cruise line. This should yield an incident report of some kind that our cruise ship injury lawyers can obtain and review soon afterward.
Report your injuries as well and seek medical care from onboard physicians. You may be medically evacuated to a hospital capable of treating your injuries, as onboard medical facilities are typically limited.
Contact Our Attorneys and Preserve Evidence
Contacting our lawyers as quickly as possible is crucial to preserve evidence. Accidents may happen in front of witnesses who can offer statements supporting your compensation claim, so we will promptly work to identify and contact them to schedule interviews.
Under the Cruise Ship Security and Safety Act, ships that make port in the United States need onboard surveillance systems for passenger safety. Getting video footage from Silversea Cruises might help prove the cruise line’s liability, such as if footage shows guardrails giving away or security failing to check passenger badges at entry points. Furthermore, we will also request all records regarding your treatment from onboard medical staff, as these records can help show your immediate injuries and link them to the accident in question.
Continue Your Medical Care and Document Damages
Generally speaking, victims who suffer injuries on Silversea Cruises need to continue their medical care after returning home. Slip and falls on slick decks that lead to fractures and sprains need further treatment and follow-up visits, as do more serious injuries, like back or neck injuries. Continuing your care will generate more medical records our lawyers can use to prove the physical harm you suffered, so do not neglect this crucial aspect of your case. Not only is this important for your financial recovery, but it is also vital for your physical one.
While you do this, our lawyers will focus on documenting your damages. Generally, the bulk of victims’ financial losses come from medical treatment, and we will itemize all hospital expenses for your claim. We can use income statements to show your lost wages since the accident and the difference in earning capacity before and after.
On top of economic damages, victims may get non-economic damages from Silversea Cruises after filing lawsuits. This can cover victims’ pain and suffering, which we can quantify after conferring with experts and speaking with victims about the mental anguish and emotional distress from their injuries.
Send a Notice of a Claim and Prepare the Complaint
Like many other cruise lines, Silversea Cruises requires passengers to send notice of their claims within six months of sustaining injuries. This is a crucial step in the recovery process, and missing it could derail your lawsuit and make getting compensation much more difficult. Our lawyers can prepare and send a notice of our claim on time to avoid such threats to your recovery.
We will also prepare the official lawsuit complaint during this time, which must contain specific details about you, the plaintiff, the defendant, the accident’s circumstances, and our requests for relief. Otherwise, courts might dismiss complaints, forcing plaintiffs to refile.
File the Complaint and Negotiate a Settlement
The complaint must be filed within a year, as this is typically the statute of limitations for cruise ship injury lawsuits under maritime law. Once we do this, settlement negotiations might commence, during which we can assert your losses and leverage evidence of liability. We won’t advise you to sign a settlement agreement unless it fully covers your damages, including intangible losses.
Go to Trial and Get Compensation
If your case goes to court because the defendant doesn’t offer a fair settlement, our lawyers can present our evidence and arguments at trial. Even during trials, we may field settlement offers from the defense, which we can still evaluate, and you can accept at any time before the lawsuit ends. If the jury agrees that the defendant is liable, it will award you compensation based on the proof of damages we were able to provide. Juries may also award punitive damages after finding Silversea Cruises liable for gross negligence.
Call Our Attorneys for Help with Your Cruise Ship Injury Lawsuit
Call Rivkind Margulies & Rivkind at (305) 204-5369 for a free case analysis from our cruise ship injury lawyers.
