KALENDAREVA v. DISCOVERY CRUISE LINE

No. 4D00-4151.

798 So.2d 804 (2001)

Sara KALENDAREVA, Appellant, v. DISCOVERY CRUISE LINE PARTNERSHIP, Discovery Sun Partnership, d/b/a Discovery Cruise Line, Discovery Dawn, Inc., and Discovery Dawn Partnership, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 24, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold R. Ginsberg of Ginsberg & Schwartz, Miami, and the law Offices of Akiva Ofshtein, Sunny Isles Beach, for appellant.

David B. Pakula of Faxio, Dawson, DiSalvo, Cannon, Abers, Podrecca & Fazio, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.


KLEIN, J.

Appellant plaintiff, a passenger on appellee's cruise ship, was injured by a rope thrown while the ship was docking. We reverse the trial court's direction of a verdict in favor of the defendant.

While plaintiff was sitting on a lounge chair on the third deck, she was struck by the weighted end of a rope thrown by an employee of Port Everglades, which is not a party to this appeal. These ropes, or heaving lines, were being thrown from the dock to...

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