"Should cruisers be able to sue over rough seas"

Got one going right now.

http://www.cruiselawnews.com/2016/02/articles/rough-weather-1/anthem-of-the-seas-lawsuits-royal-caribbean-recklessly-sailed-into-storm/index.html

More recent--Today.

https://www.facebook.com/cruiselawnews/posts/978672835514306?ref=notif¬if_t=notify_me_page

Oh, there are cases or cases very similar. I'm most familiar with litigation involving turbulence and resulting injury occurring in flight. As far as "recent" goes, back on April 15, 1912 when the Titanic went down, partially due unseasonable winds and currents bringing icebergs further south down the Labrador Current, courts did not have the jurisdiction to determine negligence and damages for loss of life or injury on the high seas.

http://www.hickeylawfirm.com/2012/08/judge-rules-in-favor-of-stormy-seas-lawsuit

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/titanic/collect.htm

If there is negligence involved (such as the Captain playing "chicken" with a hurricane), and the passenger suffered a loss, then why not?

I do not believe that this has happened in recent history, though.

I don't think you should be able to sue over rough seas. After all, who can 100% predict weather? Nobody.

Drought, fires, smog, heat, noise, Hollywood types and more Hollywood types.....I'll take snow, fresh air and my Hot tub outside at 40 Below C and F and we tend to ignore the Hollywood types.

Actually, the question, "should someone be able to sue over ???" isn't really applicable in our society. I'm not a lawyer but having been involved in litigation numerous times I've listened to a lot of lawyers and worked with lots of them, in addition my baccalaureate required I listen to lawyer professors, however, I've forgotten most of that.

What I do recall though is the advice that in the US "anybody can sue anybody for anything anytime". The germane question though is, if someone sues, "what are the odds of them prevailing?" If someone sues willy nilly because they simply have a litigious personality, it is possible that they lose a lot of money in the process of losing. They have to pay their own court costs and legal representatives and in most cases pick up a sizable share of the prevailing parties expenses; for the most part, frivolous lawsuits are rare due to that eventuality.

Truth is the plaintiff could and does often lose everything they have if they undertake a stupid lawsuit. Unfortunately, in our society we have some who possess obscene levels of wealth, losing doesn't mean much to them, they simply write it off. So there exists the rare chance that one can get legally hammered by one of those dudes simply because they don't like the way someone parts their hair.

Whoa Nellie, I still like to think you are correct since Alaska has a lot of potholes and due the perma-frost up here and freeze and thaw cycles it is very hard to avoid alligatoring and potholes, regardless the amount of maintenance you put into the roads. But don't be so certain.

Back in the early 1960s the highly regarded wife of one of our State Senators, I believe he was even President of the Senate at the time, got killed in the spring due to a very dangerous pothole on the edge of the old Seward Highway. Quite a court battle ensued and there were more than a few trial complexities involved, I sure don't remember all the detail, other than the plaintiff prevailed which made a rich man out of the Senator. He left the Senate, went on to law school and returned to Alaska. I don't recall him being a known practicing attorney after that but he became a pretty successful businessman dealing in the visitor industry up here.

So, whenever someone mentions "you can't sue over "potholes"" hard core Alaskan's ears pick up.

I don't think you should be able to! You can't sue for pot holes in the road. All you can do is avoid driving on that road just the same way as not going on a cruise if you fear rough seas!!

Snow ? what is that ? We had mid 90's last week, then a couple days in the 60's with light rain and now we are going back to the mid 80's. Los Angeles weather can't beat it other then the drought.