Carnival Can’t Toss Honeymooner’s Severed Finger Claims

• Jury will decide whether Carnival Corp. had duty to warn passenger about slamming ship door, Eleventh Circuit says • Carnival’s knowledge of high winds also a jury question, but cruise line wins failure-to-maintain claim

A jury must decide claims that Carnival Corp. failed to warn a cruise passenger that a heavy ship’s door could chop off his finger, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled.

The June 29 unpublished decision reinstated the negligence claims of honeymooner Mark Horne, who says his finger was severed by the slamming door as he and his new wife opened the ...