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Injured Couple Says They Had Right To Intervene In AIG Fight
Law360 (May 13, 2021, 4:06 PM EDT) A couple injured in a zip line accident during a Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. shore excursion told the Eleventh Circuit Thursday that they should have been allowed to intervene in a suit between the zip line company and its insurer AIG over whether the dispute should have been arbitrated.
Stephen Marino, who represents quadriplegic Lynn McCullough and her husband, told an Eleventh Circuit panel that the district court judge erred when he did not allow them, as holders of a $66.5 million judgment, to represent their interests in the dispute between Rain Forest Adventures Ltd. and an AIG Hong Kong affiliate..
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MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Royal Caribbean Cruises might yet shrink a $20 million verdict against it in a lawsuit brought by an employee whose hand was crushed in a door and subsequently complained of chronic pain but has since been filmed using it to perform everyday activities.
That’s because the Miami trial judge, Reemberto Diaz, failed to properly consider the company’s arguments that the verdict was totally out of line with other cases alleging similar injuries and was the result of unfair juror passion, an appeals court has ruled.
Diaz simply stated that he believed in the jury’s role in determining damages and did not have enough of a grasp on the type of injury alleged by Lisa Spearman to reduce their verdict.
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Carnival Cruise Line is ready to get back to work. While the cruise industry waits for final approval to resume travel, the cruise line moved two ships into the Port of Galveston. It’s a not-so-subtle reminder that after a year of waiting, it is time to bring back jobs and economic advantages in port cities like Galveston.
Federal orders halted cruise ships fourteen months ago. The City of Galveston has been hit hard by the economic pain brought by the pandemic. Carnival Cruise Line is the Port of Galveston’s largest cruise operator. The cruise industry brings $1.6 billion in annual economic activity and employs 27,000 people in Texas. On Sunday two of Carnival’s ships – the Carnival Breeze and Carnival Vista – pulled into the port as a way of highlighting the cruise line’s economic impact on the area. A rally was held on Monday.