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On 2/16/13 4:26 PM, Gogarty wrote:
In article om,
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On 2/16/2013 2:13 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/16/13 1:19 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:28:38 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

MOBILE, Ala. -- The first lawsuit was filed Friday by one of thousands
of passengers trapped aboard a Carnival cruise ship adrift in the Gulf
of Mexico for the past five days.
This will be a case to watch. They will have to prove some kind of
gross negligence to get around the somewhat iron clad waivers you sign
when you buy a ticket.
This is the country to do it tho. The US may be the only place in the
world where having a signed waiver is no guarantee that you can be
sued for exactly what the plaintiff waived.

I'll also bet that those that were told, here, we're going to give you a
refund, and a voucher for a future cruise, and reimburse you for your
expenses, just sign here, are unknowingly signing away their rights to
sue.

It won't take much of a tort lawyer to bust through that nonsense.

Ahhh, but it will. Carnival will have the best MARITIME legal defense
team, at their service.

MARITIME! That's the word, that's the word. Maritime or admiralty law is a
whole different kettle of fish from ordinary tort law. They actually don't
need all those signed waivers. Once you set foot on their ship you surrender
your tort rights. It's their ball game.

Uh-huh. So, admiralty law precludes findings of negligence, eh?

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