Carnival has been hit with a second lawsuit after the Carnival Triumph Cruise Ship disaster that left passengers on board for days with disgusting conditions.
ABC News reported that Lisa Williams, 42, from Houston said that she suffered sever dehydration and bruising from food lines on the ship which was left stranded in water after a fire last week.
Williams claims to have gotten so sick from the ship that she had to have fluids administered in her body intravenously in an emergency room when she got back to Houston.
"Plaintiff has been exposed to extremely toxic and debilitating conditions resulting in severe and permanent injuries," the lawsuit alleges reports ABC News.
The Triumph finally docked in Mobile, Alabama on Friday. Another passenger, Cassie Terry from Texas said according to USA Today that the ship "failed to provide a seaworthy vessel and sanitary conditions." She added that she is seeking compensation for "physical and emotional harm, anxiety, nervousness and the 'loss of enjoyment of life."
Carnival has offered a full refund to passengers a well as an additional $500 for compensation and credit for a future cruise.
The ship was adrift in Gulf of Mexico for five days.
"Some kissed the ground in relief after tug boats pulled the crippled ship into port in Mobile, Ala., and guests once again stood on dry land. Passengers described an unbearable smell on the ship due to overflowing toilets and drain pipes that soaked many interior passages and cabins," reported CNBC.
Robin Chandler celebrated her 50th birthday on the ship and said to Reuters, "There are lost wages, I've got a baby sitter at home and I had to take off work."
The U.S. coast guard said that the Carnival Triumph's cruise ship fire was caused by a leak in a fuel oil return line.
The fire on Carnival Corp.'s cruise ship Triumph was caused by a leak in a fuel oil return line, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The ship left Galveston, Texas on Feb. 7 and had more than 3,100 guests on it. It caught fire on Feb. 10 off the coast of Mexico and didn't arrive in Mobile, Alabama until Feb. 14 after being stranded for four days.
Though people are suing, lawyers are saying that passengers don't have much to sue for.
The Huffington Post reported that unless the passengers suffered major injuries or losses because of the cruise, they are better off accepting compensation.
"Within hours, Cassie Terry, of Brazoria County, Texas, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Miami describing the ship as "a floating toilet, a floating Petri dish, a floating hell" and seeking damages from Carnival Corp.
As the ship listed as it was being towed, Terry was in constant fear of contracting serious illness from raw sewage spilling from non-functioning toilets. She had to wade through human feces to reach food lines that were hours long, only to receive spoiled rations, according to the lawsuit," reported The Huffington Post.
However her accounts don't describe any injuries or harm that could lead to a successful lawsuit, reports The Huffington Post. Miriam Lebental, an attorney who specializes in cruis ship injuries said that though the conditions might have been disgusting it might be better for passengers to just "get over it."
She said to the Huffington Post that she wouldn't be interested in taking a client unless it involved major injury or negligence.
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