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VIKAND about World Maritime Day 2015

(Fort Lauderdale, FL September 24th, 2015) – VIKAND is quoted in the article “World Maritime Day: What do you think” courtesy The Maritime Executive highlighting World Maritime Day 2015. Read an extract from the article below – or click here to read the full article by Wendy Larsen on The Maritime Executive’s website. “As are…

VIKAND’s Dr. Bill Heymann and President Peter Hult featured in The Maritime Executive

(Fort Lauderdale, FL August 17th, 2015) – Read an extract of the article “Maintaining seafarer’s wellness” by Wendy Laursen in the July/August issue of the The Maritime Executive below. “U.S.-based VIKAND provides medical services to the cruise industry, and the company is expanding its services to shipping and offshore companies through a telemedicine offering that…

VIKAND mentioned in The Maritime Executive article

Cruise lines have enjoyed freedom from liability for the actions of their doctors and nurses since 1988 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit adopted the so-called Barbetta rule that said cruise ships are not floating hospitals. Now, by its decision in the matter of Franza versus Royal Caribbean Cruises, the U.S.…