According to the complaint, between 11.45pm and 12.20am Sanders fell after she stumbled while trying to walk down a set of stairs and \u201csustained severe injuries, including, but not limited to, a concussion, headaches, a possible traumatic brain injury, back injuries, tailbone injuries, bruising, and other injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n
Then, after 17 months of litigation, the case went to a trial by jury on April 6 which lasted four days, according to People.<\/p>\n
The jury found both Carnival and Sanders were negligent, finding the cruise line was 60% liable and Sanders 40% liable.<\/p>\n
Sanders was awarded US$300,000 for the emotional pain, suffering and mental anguish.<\/p>\n
Carnival disagreed with the verdict, telling People it \u201cbelieves there are grounds for a new trial and appeal, which it will pursue\u201d.<\/p>\n
After Sanders was awarded, she appeared with her lawyer on Instagram to talk about the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cWaking up after blacking out and going to the crew and asking them for help … they treated me like a criminal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very concerned that they wouldn\u2019t tell me exactly what happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sanders said she felt \u201cbullied\u201d through the whole experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like everything they did was to either mentally torment me or financially torment me. It was a lot for the last two years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the complaint, between 11.45pm and 12.20am Sanders fell after she stumbled while trying to walk down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22256,10002,44096,74,20784,1567,1558,682,138,179,60627,45435,2037,22427,111,139,11515,69,44355,199382,14734,19334,60776,50376,133651,199383,199384,6202],"class_list":{"0":"post-384132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-22256","9":"tag-10002","10":"tag-aboard","11":"tag-after","12":"tag-alcohol","13":"tag-awarded","14":"tag-been","15":"tag-being","16":"tag-business","17":"tag-california","18":"tag-carnival","19":"tag-corporation","20":"tag-cruise","21":"tag-damages","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nurse","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-operator","27":"tag-overserved","28":"tag-passenger","29":"tag-payout","30":"tag-ships","31":"tag-shots","32":"tag-suing","33":"tag-tequila","34":"tag-us300000","35":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}