Carnival has lost an appeal of a finding in a class action that it was negligent in preventing a COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship, but an appeal by the applicant over damages has also failed.
The judge who approved a $2.4 million settlement in a class action against Carnival said it should be regarded as a victory that cruise passengers got anything, when the case was pleaded at an “unsustainably high level”.
P&O Cruises has resolved a group of personal injury cases by passengers who were seriously hurt in a bus collision in Vanuatu in 2016.
A Shine Lawyers class action over norovirus outbreaks on Carnival’s Sun Princess cruise ship has called an attempt to see documents outlining its strategy for the case “abusive” and “bizarre”, as the cruise operator continues its fight to have the suit struck out.
Cruise operator Carnival is facing a third class action in Australia, this time on behalf of passengers aboard P&O’s Pacific Aria, which sailed from Brisbane into the path of a Category 5 cyclone six years ago.