Posted on 04/16/2026 7:22:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Carnival Cruise Line must pay $300,000 to a former passenger after a federal jury in South Florida found that the company was negligent in serving the woman more than a dozen shots of tequila before she fell down some stairs and suffered a possible traumatic brain injury.
The Miami federal jury decided last Friday in favor of Diana Sanders, a 45-year-old nurse from Vacaville, California.
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According to the lawsuit, Sanders was a passenger aboard the Carnival Radiance on Jan. 5, 2024, when was served at least 14 shots between approximately 2:58 p.m. and 11:37 p.m. She experienced a fall some time between 11:45 p.m. and 12:20 a.m. that caused her to suffer a concussion, headaches, a possible traumatic brain injury, back injuries, tailbone injuries, bruising and other injuries, the complaint said.
Aronfeld said jurors were presented with evidence of 30 minutes of missing surveillance video from the time Sanders left the Casino bar until she was found unconscious in a crew-only area.
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Drunk does pay, I guess.
Just more lawsuit madness.
Carnival.... hmmm....
Anyone want to guess the complexion of the litigant?
Having had alcoholic relatives, seeing a middle-aged woman who does 12 tequila shots to get falling-down drunk - I’m gonna bet its not the first time she’s been in such a state.
I’d even bet it wasn’t even the first time that week.....
Jimmy Buffett might sing, “Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Sue”.
Umm, I wonder if anyone in the Defense asked: how do we know that anyone OK with a dozen shots doesn’t already have brain damage?
“Anyone want to guess the complexion of the litigant?”
Drunk white woman.
She was knee-crawling, slip-sliding, Reggie-Youngin’ Commode-hugging drunk.
You have to know that you’re buying a lot of alcohol, when the airline sells it to you in those little bottles.
She had to be aware of it. If she is an alcoholic or one of those people who is overly sensitive to alcohol, she had to already know that as well. That award should be reduced by her own share of the responsibility. Maybe 30% less.
Search by her name and "carnival lawsuit, settlement, etc., immediately comes up.
Click on one then on images.
Amazing and unusual, she's about as lily white as one gets without being albino.
Apparently her fall didn't end her ability to have a s**t eating grin from ear to ear.
“All we drank was beer in teeny-weenie glasses.”
“How many teeny-weenie glasses did you have?”
“Seventy-two.”
A California nurse won a $300,000 lawsuit against Carnival Corporation after claiming bar staff for the cruise giant overserved her tequila — causing her to fall and severely injure herself, according to reports.
The verdict found Carnival was 60% at fault for the incident, and Sanders was 40% at fault.
Why guess? Her picture is all over the place.
This one obviously held quite a lot.
$300,000, is that her net take after the lawyers or the pre lawyer amount ?
At any rate , she ‘ll have spent whatever it is soon if not already.
I would think the ship would sail under a foreign flag and that she could only sue in Panama, Liberia or like place.
+1
If you made that up, its good!
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