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CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES, INC. v. RODRIGUEZ

No. 85-1802.

505 So.2d 550 (1987)

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES, INC., Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Jose Alberto RODRIGUEZ, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smathers & Thompson and Rodney Earl Walton, Miami, for appellant/cross-appellee.

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg, Charles R. Lipcon, Miami, for appellee/cross-appellant.

Before BARKDULL, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.

BASKIN, Judge.

Former Carnival Cruise Lines' [Carnival] seaman Jose Rodriguez [Rodriguez] instituted an action to recover damages from Carnival for the loss of sight in one eye. The impairment of his vision resulted from his contracting toxoplasmosis choreoretinitis, a disease caused by a tropical parasite often found in raw or undercooked meat. Rodriguez claimed that Carnival served him raw or undercooked meat during his employment on the TSS Festivale, and that...

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