A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a COVID-19 outbreak has been ruled negligent in an Australian class-action case
Susan Karpik speaks to media outside the Federal Court in Sydney, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Karpik was the lead plaintiff in the case against British-American cruise operator Carnival and its subsidiary Princess Cruises that an Australian judge ruled failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a major COVID-19 outbreak had been negligent in its duty of care to passengers.
“I have found that before the embarkation of passengers on the Ruby Princess for the cruise in question, the respondents knew or ought to have known about the heightened risk ofinfection on the vessel and its potentially lethal consequences and that their procedures for screening passengers and crew members for the virus were unlikely to screen out all infectious individuals,” Stewart said.
“To the respondents’ knowledge, to proceed with the cruise carried significant risk of a coronavirus outbreak with possible disastrous consequences, yet they proceeded regardless,” Stewart said.However, she was only awarded her out-of-pocket medical expenses of AU$4,423.48 for reasons including that the judge did not accept she suffered from long COVID and that Carnival had refunded all the passengers’ fares.“I was very pleased with that finding.
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