24 May 2011
A judge ordered Royal Caribbean to pay a crew member that was injured while working on Jewel of the Seas in June 2008 and subsequently forced to continue working $1.25 million. The amount is the highest arbitration cost ever awarded to an injured crew member.
The crew member, from Serbia, hurt her back when another crew member violently slammed a door into her back while she was walking down a narrow hallway. She went to the ship's infirmary where she was found unfit for duty after being diagnosed with a herniated disc in her back. Her supervisor, however, ordered her to continue working.
