Navigating A Course To Justice
The CDC estimates that there are nearly 80,000 cruise ship crew members that have been left stranded aboard approximately 100 cruise ships. Thus far, rescue efforts have focused on getting passengers off the ships, but the crew members remain largely forgotten. Meanwhile, the crew members remain quarantined on board. Some ships are along side in port and others are just…
Princess Cruises is fielding another lawsuit related to the fateful voyage aboard the Grand Princess. This lawsuit involves the death of a retired Dallas firefighter, Michael Dorety. His wife sued Princess Cruises after he contracted coronavirus aboard the vessel and died several days later in the hospital. She is seeking at least $1 million in damages. This is just the…
Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corp. and sister line to Princess Cruise Lines, is the latest cruise line facing lawsuits amidst the coronavirus pandemic. These lawsuits are related to the Costa Luminosa. The passengers who filed the lawsuit attempted to get off the ship after a report that two other passengers disembarked. They wrote the captain a letter, but…
An LA County couple has filed a lawsuit against Princess Cruises after they allegedly got sick from food products they purchased on their cruise. They accuse the cruise line of negligence, fraud, breach of implied and express warranties, and well as premises liability. The couple claims that after they purchased food on the cruise, they became violently ill from “viruses,…
This is not the kind of statistic that you want to be known for, but Carnival Cruise leads all other cruise lines in 2019 in one notable category: Sexual assaults. But it’s important to understand that Carnival is not the only cruise line that has this problem. The New York Post reported that sexual assaults aboard cruise ships rose 67%…
Royal Carribean lost a major decision just recently after a federal judge ruled that the family of Chloe Wiegand could move for with their lawsuit against the cruise line. Royal Carribean had prevented “evidence” that the grandfather, who was charged with negligent homicide in his granddaughter’s death, knew that the window ledge that he had placed Chloe on had an…
An “out of control” cruise ship recently collided with a riverboat. Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection is suing MSC cruises over an incident that occurred just outside of Venice, Italy. The incident was caught on tape, and you can clearly hear the MSC cruise line vessel’s horn blaring as it collided with the smaller vessel which was already docked. Now,…
An actress with a small role in “Marriage Story” is suing Princess Cruise Lines after a bed bug infestation caused her severe distress. The lawsuit has been filed in federal court in California and seeks unspecified damages of over $75,000. Connie Marie Flores had a small role as the “arguing woman” in the Oscar-nominated film produced by Netflix. The lawsuit…
Norwegian Cruise Lines is being sued after a family claims that their 11-year-old daughter was raped by a 27-year-old male steward. They say the steward used his master key to enter the girl’s stateroom while she was asleep. The family says that they told the man that she was trying to rest and to leave her undisturbed. But the man…
If you’re in a major lawsuit against a high-powered corporation, that corporation will do whatever is in their power to win the case. This includes ensuring that criminal charges against you stick in order to ensure that they don’t have to pay out a large sum of money. One family is learning this the hard way after their toddler fell…