Superstar Cruises is demanding a lawsuit filed by a grieving widow and her household be dismissed.
RadarOnline.com has solely discovered the journey firm is denying any legal responsibility in response to the stunning claims introduced forth by Marilyn Jones, her two daughters, and three grandchildren, who’re searching for $1 million in damages following the lack of their cherished one.
Within the authentic submitting submitted in Florida, Jones cited how her husband, Robert, died of a coronary heart assault on August 15, 2022, onboard the Superstar Equinox.
Jones mentioned she was knowledgeable that his physique may very well be taken off on the subsequent cease, Puerto Rico, or saved within the morgue till the ship received again to Fort Lauderdale in lower than per week.
She selected the latter as a result of different implications the previous selection would have together with arranging transportation and doubtlessly having to attend for an post-mortem to be accomplished.
Jones claimed that his physique was saved for practically per week inside a walk-in cooler usually used for drinks, leaving it bloated and inexperienced, and the household was unable to have an open-coffin funeral “which was a long-standing household customized” and what they desired.
“As a substitute, Mr. Jones’ physique had, at a while not but recognized, had been moved from the ship’s morgue to a cooler on a unique ground than the ship’s morgue,” Jones alleged. “The cooler during which Mr. Jones’ physique was discovered by the funeral worker had drinks positioned exterior of the cooler, and was not at a temperature which was ample nor correct for storing a useless physique to forestall decomposition.”
The incident gave Roberts’ household “excessive trauma by visualizing Mr. Jones’s physique horrifically decomposed, and realizing their husband and father was callously and casually left in a beverage cooler, stripping him of his dignity,” in accordance with the submitting.
The plaintiffs are searching for a jury trial.
RadarOnline.com can verify the journey firm has since denied wrongdoing.
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“Plaintiffs’ emotional damages claims have been neither the results of a bodily damage to the passenger, nor the results of a passenger having been at precise threat of bodily damage, nor have been deliberately inflicted by Superstar,” the submitting denying legal responsibility acknowledged.
RadarOnline.com has additionally discovered the journey firm requested the courtroom to dismiss the plaintiffs’ motion with prejudice to forestall Jones from submitting once more at a later time.
“Superstar didn’t act with willful or wanton misconduct and, thus, Superstar can’t be answerable for tortuous interference with a useless physique,” the submitting continued partly, happening to answer the household’s claims in regards to the trauma they endured amid the ordeal. “Plaintiffs’ alleged psychological misery damages are typical of pure grief ensuing from the dying of a cherished one and usually are not the results of Superstar’s actions or omissions.”