Briscoe v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc.

Mary Jane Briscoe appeals an adverse jury verdict in her action which arises from a slip and fall accident on a two-step flight of stairs aboard one of the vessels owned by the appellee, Celebrity Cruises, Inc.

' The steps in question connected the deck to the shower area. Briscoe’s suit alleged a design defect based on her liability expert’s opinion that she fell because the two steps had different riser heights. The expert conceded that his opinion assumed that Briscoe made it down onto the second step, i.e., the shower area floor. Thus, the location of her fall was a crucial feature of the…