If the reporting is accurate, this doesn’t seem like the argument that Carnival should be making.
Passengers ‘blamed’ for Concordia damages
Costa Cruises parent company Carnival is said to have blamed passengers, at least in part, for the damages they sustained in the Costa Concordia shipwreck a year ago in documents pertaining to a law suit in the United States, according to the passengers’ lawyers. The disaster off Tuscany’s Giglio Island on January 13, 2011 claimed the lives of 32 people The John Arthur Eaves law firm, which is representing the passengers, said the Miami-based Carnival Corp wrote in court documents that “passengers’ negligent or careless behavior were among the causes, if not the only cause, of the alleged injuries and damages”.