Legal Opinion
Rafferman v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided August 30, 1995No. 94-1788PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
Gaston Letelier, a helmsman on the cruise-ship Carnivale, committed suicide by jumping overboard. His widow brought a wrongful death action under the Jones Act and the general maritime law against the shipowner, Carnival Cruise Lines, based on the claim that it failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent the suicide. This appeal is from a summary judgment entered for the shipowner on the stated ground that the suicide was not foreseeable as a matter of law. We affirm.
The plaintiffs claim is based on an alleged breach of the duty a shipowner owes a seaman to take…
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