If you or a loved one gets ill on a cruise, you may not have legal recourse.
March 16, 2020, 9:09 PMThe WHO has now declared the virus, aka COVID-19, a pandemic.outbreak on massive cruise liners has quarantined thousands, sickened hundreds and even resulted in a handful of deaths, one maritime law expert warns that there may be very little legal recourse that can be taken by those whose lives have been impacted by the pandemic at sea.from Johns Hopkins University.
Workers walk past the coronavirus-hit cruise ship Diamond Princess as they leave the Yokohama Port, south of Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 21, 2020."The U.S. Supreme Court has said that the relationship between the fare-paying passenger and a cruise line is a governing contract," he added. For example, with Princess Cruise Lines, a Bermuda-registered corporation that has been in headlines recently after two coronavirus outbreaks aboard its ships,"irrespective of where you live or where the accident happened," you would have to file a lawsuit against them in Los Angeles, according to Walker.Moreover, many of the major players in the industry -- including those that are popular among American cruise-goers -- are incorporated in foreign countries such as Bermuda and Panama.
"The flag countries, the country where these ships are registered, as a practical manner are not going to do anything," he added."They are not going to investigate anything, you could have the worst ship catastrophe, no one from the Bahamas or Panama is going to come do anything," he alleged.
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