Boat Accident and Maritime Law Legal News Articles & Interviews

Baja, MX An American tourist is dead and five other people are missing following a boat accident off the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. A tour boat carrying 43 people capsized off the east coast of the peninsula, at 2:30 am on Sunday, according to the US Coast Guard, who is assisting Mexican authorities in search and rescue operations.

Richmond, VA A man from New Kent, Virginia, has been arrested after a recent boat accident that injured eight people, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Hague, NY A Staten Island man was seriously injured in a recent boat accident that occurred on Lake George near Hague, New York.

Philadelphia, PA The bodies of two Hungarian students were pulled from the water in the Delaware river after they drowned in a boat accident earlier this week.

Delaware River, DL A boat accident on the Delaware River earlier today ended with all 37 passengers in the river. Two people on board have not been accounted for.

Delaware, OH An man recently died of injuries sustained in a boating accident when two boats collided head-on in an Ohio state park.

Dallas, TX A boat manufacturer was ordered by a federal jury to pay millions of dollars to a young man who lost part of his leg in a boating accident. Eighteen-year-old Jacob Brochtrup lost so much blood in the accident that he was clinically dead when he arrived at the hospital.

Lolita, TX A terrible boating accident claimed the life of a Victoria man after the vessel he was riding was impaled by a confederate steamboat in the Navidad River.

Calgary, ABMaritime laws vary widely, depending on which country has jurisdiction over the waters occupied by a vessel. There have been many historic disputes between countries over boating accidents, fishing rights and trespassing charges. The potential for jurisdictional dispute is especially high when an accident happens aboard a cruise ship, as was the case in 2007 when a Canadian woman slipped and fell while holidaying aboard a Carnival Cruise liner.