Case Summary:

In the district court, Vivian Ruggeri won a maritime personal injury action against NCL (Bahamas) Ltd arising from injuries she suffered on a cruise ship tender, and the case is now on cross-appeals in the Eleventh Circuit, where she is the appellee/cross‑appellant and NCL is the appellant/cross‑appellee.

At the lower court level, Ruggeri filed suit in the Southern District of Florida (Case No. 20‑cv‑21961‑DPG), alleging that she was injured on October 25, 2019, when an NCL tender ferrying passengers between the pier at Cannes, France and the Norwegian Epic was operated negligently, causing the vessel to pitch and roll and throwing her from side to side so that she grabbed a bench and tore her right rotator cuff, ultimately requiring two shoulder surgeries and extensive treatment. The court held an eight‑day bench trial  ...