JORGENSON, Judge.
Elizabeth Hirsch sustained injuries when she slipped and fell while descending a stairway on the M/S Sunward II, a Norwegian Caribbean Lines [Norwegian] cruise ship on which she was a passenger. More than one year after the date of her accident, she brought a negligence action against the steamship line. The contract of passage provided for a one-year period of limitations.
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