Leading Maritime Disaster Lawyers Urge Duck Boat Ban After Incident Near Boston

Eleven passengers were injured when a disabled Boston Duck Tours amphibious vehicle flipped on its side while being towed from the Charles River.

Philadelphia, PA – Leading maritime attorneys at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky are renewing their call for a ban on all tourist duck boat operations after numerous passengers on a disabled Boston Duck Tours amphibious vehicle were injured when it flipped on its side while being towed from the Charles River, according to numerous published reports.

Attorneys Robert J. Mongeluzzi and Andrew R. Duffy, whose Philadelphia-based firm has represented dozens of victims in duck boat disaster cases across the U.S. since 2010, and have recovered more than $175 million for those victims, said after today’s incident, “We have long maintained that duck boats, designed to replicate World War II landing craft, are inherently unsafe, have been demonstrated to be deathtraps – in and out of the water – and should be banned once and for all. We hope and pray for the injured in today’s incident and that regulators prohibit renewed operations until passenger and public safety can be assured.”

Attorneys Mongeluzzi and Duffy led the firm’s legal team that represented the victims of the deadly duck boat disasters in Philadelphia in July 2010, and in Branson, Missouri in July 2018.

They can be contacted to discuss this latest foreseeable and preventable incident and past catastrophes.

Contacts:

Robert J. Mongeluzzi | rmongeluzzi@smbb.com | 215.850.6571
Andrew R. Duffy | aduffy@smbb.com | 609.320.4919
Steph Rosenfeld | steph@idadvisors.com |315.514.4101