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Meyer[_2_]

On 2/17/2013 1:28 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:56:50 -0500, Gogarty
wrote:

In article ,
says...

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?

I did not say that. What it may well do is limit liability.

There is precedence here. Another ship in the Pacific had a fire and drifted
for five days. How did those cases turn out? Also, Concordia, suits filed,
ships arrested then released.

This is America. The lawyers may not be able to do anything about the
ship and crew but they will the Carnival front office. That is a land
based US business and they will say it was negligent corporate
decisions that were responsible for the accident and the problems in
the cleanup.

Whether they get away with it is anyone's guess but what do the
lawyers have to lose? Only their time.
In most of those other countries, loser pays. That cuts down on
frivolous suits a bit

This incident will only serve to make future potential cruise ship
passengers more aware that they have very few, if any, rights aboard
cruise ships. When **** happens, there is not a whole lot you can do
about it. Carnival is probably more worried about bad publicity than
compensating their passengers.

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