Grand Princess passengers bring fresh suit over alleged negligence, coronavirus exposure
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A second group of former Grand Princess cruise ship passengers is suing Carnival Corp. and its Princess cruise line in a federal court in Los Angeles after a similar suit against the companies was filed this week.
The more recent complaint filed Thursday is seeking class-action status on behalf of more than 2,000 passengers who sailed aboard the Grand Princess to Mexico in February, a trip which it alleges resulted in over 100 coronavirus infections and two deaths.
The filing alleges the cruise line was aware of coronavirus infections on board another of its ships, the Diamond Princess, in Asia prior to the Feb. 11 departure of the Grand Princess from San Francisco to Mexico, but did not take measures to protect passengers from the virus.
The lawsuit does not allege that crew were transferred over from the Diamond Princess to the Grand Princess. It instead claims, “Defendants knew or should have known of the actual risk of viral contagion of COVID-19 aboard cruise ships,” because of the separate outbreak aboard the Diamond Princess, which began when that vessel was docked in Yokohama, Japan.
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