Erickson v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc.

GREEN, Judge.

This is a slip and fall action wherein the appellant, plaintiff below, appeals the entry of a final summary judgment entered in favor of the appellee cruise line. We reverse.

Appellant Janice Erickson and her husband boarded appellee’s cruise ship, T.S.S. Mardi Gras, as passengers for a three-day cruise. After boarding the ship, they went to the ship’s “workout” room for a game of ping-pong. As appellant was retrieving a ping-pong ball hit off of the table, she was injured when she slipped and fell in a clear puddle of water approximately three to five feet in diameter. Prior to…