Cruise ship lawyers Lipcon, Margulies, Alsina & Winkleman, P.A. weighed-on this week on concerns raised by Senator John Rockefeller IV in his letter to Carnival Corporation CEO Mickey Arison. Last month, Rockefeller wrote a really publicised letter to Arison, following an engine room fire aboard the Carnival Triumph. That incident ended in a whole lack of power aboard the ship, subjecting Triumph’s passengers to 5 days of reportedly horrid conditions while the ship was towed from Mexican waters back to port in Alabama. Rockefeller notes a disturbing trend of great events on Carnival ships in the past five years. “This recent marked deterioration in crew conditions due to the cruise lines not threatened with having to directly answer for his or her actions in U.S. courts, we believe, directly coincides...
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