A second class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Princess and Carnival cruise lines in Los Angeles, California.
It alleges that the cruise lines knowingly helped to spread the COVID-19 virus among passengers on the Grand Princess.
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Lawyers for more than 2,000 people filed the lawsuit in federal court on Thursday.
The first lawsuit was filed on behalf of 60 people.
Princess is based in Santa Clarita, California, and its parent company, Carnival Corporation, is headquartered in Miami.
The plaintiffs were passengers on the Grand Princess that cruised from San Francisco to Mexico from February 11 to February 21.
The complaint alleges gross negligence on the part of the cruise lines in managing passenger health and safety during the outbreak of the viral illness.
It also alleges that the two entities didn’t take proper precautions in sanitizing or cleaning the ship between trips.
The plaintiffs are also claiming that the cruise lines didn’t properly test or screen existing or new passengers on the cruise which went on to Hawaii on February 21.
In addition, the lawsuit alleges that a minimum of 100 passengers who were on the cruise to Mexico tested positive for coronavirus and two died after they disembarked.
The suit says Carnival and Princess allowed potentially infected individuals to share a confined space with other passengers and exposed all 2,500 cruisers to serious illness.
The lawsuit goes on to allege that when the ship was on its way to Hawaii on February 25, Carnival and Princess emailed passengers who had disembarked from the Mexico trip and told them they may have been exposed to COVID-19.
However, the plaintiffs claim that no such notice was provided to the passengers who were on board at the time.
The cruise industry could be hit with other similar lawsuits.
After the first lawsuit was filed, Princess Cruises said its response was within the parameters set out by government and within the evolving medical knowledge surrounding the novel coronavirus.
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