What better way to spend a few weeks in winter than by taking a cruise? While so many people across the country are trying to stay warm, you could be enjoying a second tropical summer. Unfortunately, many people who book passage on one of these luxury liners suffer falls or accidents. In fact, in recent years cruise ship injury can’t have been far from mind. With incidents involving the ship named Triumph, which was owned by Carnival Corporation, and the Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy, it’s no wonder that people might be wary of boarding one of these hulking ships. If you’re planning to take a cruise in the near future and want to protect yourself from cruise ship injury, keep this post in the back of your mind. Hopefully, you won’t have to use this information, but here are a few common situations in which the cruise ship could be held responsible for your suffering. Slipping on the Deck Sometimes, people just fall. But don’t just assume that because you fell and sustained an injury that it couldn’t have been prevented. When you’re on board a cruise ship, it’s the cruise liner’s responsibility to keep walkways …
