About Aksana Coone

Aksana Moshaiv Coone’s personal injury and admiralty and maritime practice focuses on the representation of cruise ship passengers and crew members in claims involving shipboard and shore excursion injuries, wrongful deaths, sexual assaults and seamen’s employment claims.  Ms. Coone also represents individuals seriously injured in a wide array of land-based accidents, including auto accidents, slip/trip and falls and product defects.  Drawing from her years of prior experience representing insurance companies, major cruise lines and other ship owners and tour operators, Ms. Coone has the unique advantage of viewing the law from both sides to expertly advocate for the rights of injured individuals, passengers and crew members. 

Prior to founding her own personal injury law firm, Ms. Coone has gained over 17 years of litigation experience defending various businesses, corporations and shipowners.  She has successfully resolved numerous personal injury claims, including cruise ship injuries, premises liability, automobile accidents, products liability, toxic exposure and wrongful death, as well as commercial disputes, Americans with Disabilities (“ADA”) claims and employee wage and hour, discrimination and termination claims.

For nearly 14 years, Ms. Coone has represented all the major U.S. based cruise lines and various vessel owners and tour operators, handling passenger injury, wrongful death, sexual assault, and shipboard illness claims, as well as, crew member injuries and toxic exposure claims under the Jones Act and the general maritime law and individual and class action suits involving penalty wages, maintenance and cure an unearned wages claims.  Ms. Coone has also gained substantial experience with motion practice and appellate briefing in state and federal courts, including drafting Amicus petition and merit briefs for the United States Supreme Court.

Apart from her extensive maritime litigation experience, Ms. Coone had gained widespread experience in advising cruise lines and tour operators on various legal and regulatory issues and the application of international maritime conventions.  She has also assisted in establishing policies and procedures relating to crew employment and the drafting of employment agreements, as well as the carriage of passengers, including regularly drafting and amending provisions in tour operator and cruise line Passage Contracts to conform to changes in the law and international conventions.  Between 2004 and 2012, Ms. Coone also co-authored Chapter II, “Cruise Ship Governmental Regulations,” in Benedict on Admiralty, the authoritative American treatise covering all aspects of maritime law.