{"id":440,"date":"2014-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/cruise-ship-doctors-could-be-held-liable-after-landmark-ruling\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:33","slug":"cruise-ship-doctors-could-be-held-liable-after-landmark-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/cruise-ship-doctors-could-be-held-liable-after-landmark-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise ship doctors could be held liable after landmark ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s modern mega cruise ships are engineering marvels. They include elaborate boulevards that resemble actual city blocks and shopping malls. They have multiple signature restaurants, waterslides, ice skating rinks and even rock climbing walls. They also have state-of-the-art medical facilities to handle people who become sick or injured in the course of having fun on their cruise.<\/p>\n<p>However, if a patient is sickened or injured because of a doctor\u2019s negligence, the patient was usually out of luck. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/medical-malpractice.html\">Medical malpractice<\/a> cases against cruise lines were commonly dead on arrival because of maritime laws that generally insulated cruise ship medical staffs from liability in U.S. courts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may change this going forward. Essentially, the court rejected the application of the so-called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/201313067.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Barbetta rule<\/a>\u201d which immunizes a shipowner from liability under the legal theory of respondeat superior when a ship\u2019s employees are negligent in rendering medical care to passengers. Because of this, a wrongful death action based on medical malpractice alleged against a ship\u2019s doctor on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was deemed worthy of going forward. It was initially dismissed by the trial for failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/cruise-ship-doctors-could-be-held-liable-after-landmark-ruling\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Cruise ship doctors could be held liable after landmark ruling\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s modern mega cruise ships are engineering marvels. They include elaborate boulevards that resemble actual city blocks and shopping malls. They have multiple signature restaurants, waterslides, ice skating rinks and even rock climbing walls. They also have state-of-the-art medical facilities to handle people who become sick or injured in the course of having fun on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cruise ship doctors could be held liable after landmark ruling &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 2, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cruise ship doctors could be held liable after landmark ruling - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/cruise-ship-doctors-could-be-held-liable-after-landmark-ruling\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cruise ship doctors could be held liable after landmark ruling &#8212; 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