Cruise ship passengers win COVID outbreak lawsuit
Carnival Cruise Line was deemed “negligent” over a 2020 COVID outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess that resulted in 28 deaths, Australia’s Federal Court ruled in a class action lawsuit on Wednesday.
Details: Justice Angus Stewart said in a summary that the cruise company “knew or ought to have known about the heightened risk of coronavirus infection on the vessel, and its potentially lethal consequences” before it left Sydney for New Zealand in March 2020, “yet they proceeded regardless.”
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