"Cruise ship Fiasco"

[Brakie]

They are saying that few will be successful with their Concordia lawsuits, possibly the same here. It appears that some maritime laws side with the ship owners.

That's nothing new..It was the same for the survivors of the Titanic.

At that time Maritime law had limits on what a passenger could receive as a settlement and that was based on passenger class. The few steerage survivors got far less then the surviving first and second class did.Musicians,cabin boys and other non crew members faired even worst since they had no real status as a passenger or crew member.

I wouldn't be a bit surprise if there still limitations.