President Joe Biden recently signed legislation which holds owners of boats responsible for damages caused to their passengers. The Small Passenger Vessel Liability Fairness Act was authored by Rep.

The Conception, on which 34 people died in a Labor Day fire off the Santa Barbara coast, was among more than 100 California boats exempted from strict U.S. Coast Guard rules adopted more than two ...

The diving boat that caught fire on Labor Day off Southern California, killing 34 people, was among hundreds of small vessels exempted by the U.S. Coast Guard from stricter safety rules designed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dive boat Conception smolders at sunrise on Sept. 2, 2019, before sinking. (National Transportation Safety Board) The deadly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the first anniversary of the 2019 Conception boat fire, Susan Tibbles walks past a memorial for the 34 people who died. (Al ...

Lawyers representing families of a crew member and three passengers — who were among the 34 who died in a boat fire during a Labor Day dive trip off the Santa Barbara coast — sued the vessel’s owners ...

The family of the lone crew member to die in a fiery scuba boat disaster that killed all 33 passengers off the California coast last year sued the vessel’s owner Monday in federal court. The lawsuit ...

The deadly fire that broke out four years ago aboard the Conception dive boat, killing 34 people, started in a plastic trash can on the main deck, a confidential report reviewed by The Times shows.