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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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This fills me with anger. It is an abdication of personal responsibility. It is dumb asses like this person who make it so that the rest of us have to live our lives under the thumb of an increasingly confining nanny state due to litigation like this.
This is only about having drinks limited as a customer, or having bartenders or establishments accepting a responsibility and passing on the costs to us as consumers, but this kind of thing affects all of us in every aspect of life from healthcare to buying allergy medicine.
I hate this.
I also blame the jury. It’s appalling that anyone could come away from this thinking that anyone was at fault other than this woman.
When one bartender in a bar over serves someone, there is the assumption that he/she knew this was the same customer who was drinking too much. The environment on a cruise ship is so different...there are multiple bars, and lots of people coming and going. I would have to know that one single bartender served all those shots to blame the cruise line.
Must have had the “drink package”.
More nannystate crappola
so annoying, the woman is 100% at fault.
The bar is no more at fault for her drinking to much, than a grocery store is for someone eating too much
Your schtick is tired, dude.
Thanks! LoL. I would have never remembered that! Those Happy Days!
In approximately 8.5 hours this woman drank almost 1.65 shots per hour. That’s not a huge amount of alcohol if it was spaced out like that. Now if she ate nothing for those 8.5 hours, yeah she’d be tipsy. But apparently she has zip zero nada responsibility to look after her best interests. And where were her traveling companions?? Not many women take solo carnival cruises unless drinking, twerking and hooking up with the trash is what they’re really looking for.
Good post yours. I was going to say the same thing.
If she was going from bar to bar and getting one or two shots at each, I can’t see how Carnival can be blamed.
But I would perhaps feel differently if she had been driving from bar to bar, and then hit someone on the road. Should bartenders be experts at identifying already-drunk patrons?
No easy answer here.
According to the article she had been boozing at the bar from 2 PM to 11PM. Sound like she set up house at the bar and she had been there longer than a bartenders shift. She’s responsible for her own intake over the 9 hour period. She should have signed up for the babysitter package for someone to watch her.
Just another drunk ruining it for the rest of us drunks.
You left out snot-slingin’...
I would think since you have to use your passenger card to get a drink, it would show many drinks that person has been served over a period of time.
I don’t think Jimmy said that one.
That’s funny. What’s it from?
See #29
and the woman had no responsibility? did some one puour the drinks into her or did she willingly drink them?
If it’s up to bars to cut people off, just incase they make choices that hurt themself, then those people should never be allowed a drink again.
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