Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. v. Cox

This is an appeal by Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. (Royal Caribbean) from a final judgment in the sum of $1,403,791.90 *419in favor of Byron Cox, who slipped and fell while performing his job as a galley utility pot washer on Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas on January 12, 2004. Royal Caribbean challenges two adverse decisions made by the trial court during the course of trial: (1) failure to charge the jury on an affirmative defense that exists in the law of admiralty known as the “primary duty doctrine”; and (2) allowing plaintiffs vocational rehabilitation expert to testify concerning new…