A jury found a cruise line was not negligent in the medical care it provided to a crewman who claimed doctors performed an unnecessary lumbar discectomy and fusion surgery.
Seeram Kaisram, then 40, allegedly injured his spine pulling a loaded luggage cart with a broken wheel aboard Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas. Plaintiffs counsel claimed that if surgery was needed, a less invasive procedure should have been used, based on the paucity of findings on diagnostic films.
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