whitney69 wrote: “Any less than being sued by the passengers whether injured or not because they didn’t take the safety of their passengers into consideration.”
Read the cruise contract. You gave up the right to sue. Mandatory arbitration. All the things you mentioned would be evidence that they did take the safety of their passengers into consideration. An arbitration would consider weather a inherent danger of being on the sea.
“You gave up the right to sue.”
10. NOTICE OF CLAIMS AND COMMENCEMENT OF SUIT OR ARBITRATION; SECURITY
a. TIME LIMITS FOR PERSONAL INJURY/ILLNESS/DEATH CLAIMS: NO SUIT SHALL BE MAINTAINABLE AGAINST CARRIER, THE VESSEL OR THE TRANSPORT FOR PERSONAL INJURY, ILLNESS OR DEATH OF ANY PASSENGER UNLESS WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE CLAIM, WITH FULL PARTICULARS, SHALL BE DELIVERED TO CARRIER AT ITS PRINCIPAL OFFICE WITHIN SIX (6) MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE INJURY, ILLNESS OR DEATH AND SUIT IS COMMENCED (FILED) WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR FROM THE DATE OF SUCH INJURY, ILLNESS OR DEATH AND PROCESS SERVED WITHIN 120 DAYS AFTER FILING, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW OF ANY STATE OR COUNTRY TO THE CONTRARY.
No one is beyond suing if handled properly to include God. (God’s been sued before)
wy69
” All the things you mentioned would be evidence that they did take the safety of their passengers into consideration.”
They knew before they left port in Seattle the threat to their passengers was going to be there. They made no effort to warn the passengers that it was a threat. They changed the situation with the on deck actions because they didn’t want to wash anyone over board. They changed the ships float plan by lowering the speeds to keep crew safe on the stage, then forced everyone into their rooms knowing how rough it was going to be and allowed them to ricochet in the rooms with items flying around without warning. The only safety they promoted was their money being safely in the bank and then lied to the passengers at the first port. If they didn’t think they did anything wrong, then why did they put passengers in danger without telling them it was going to happen, change the format of the cruise, and then fail to warn the passengers of the danger that would be in the rooms? That is loving the money a whole lot more than being concerned with the safety of the passengers. And as I displayed in a previous thread, they can be sued and just tried to get away with it. I swore I’d never get on another cruise of that company again and from the passengers I talked with, they won’t either.
If there is no opportunity to sue, I live in Tacoma and we have a number of maritime attorneys that specialize in recoup from martitime based lawsuits. A few are:
Alaska Bar Association, Oregon State Bar, King County Bar, Joeseph s. Stacey are just a few. Waks and Barnett are one of the leaders in the industry:
wy69
My wife and I have been on 16 cruises and two land cruise adventures since the early 1980’s.
wy69