Grand Princess Passengers Launch $5 Million Virus Class Action

Grand Princess passengers who had to be quarantined at Travis Air Force Base just north of San Francisco last month filed a class action against the cruise line’s operators demanding $5 million in damages.

They claim that when the Grand Princess left for Hawaii on Feb. 21 with 2,000 passengers on board, Carnival Corp. & Plc and Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. were already aware of the escalating health crises on sister ships abroad.

A fellow Carnival cruise liner, the Diamond Princess, was docked in Japan by early February and two of her passengers had died as a result of Covid-19 ...