Legal "feeding frenzy" leads to another Carnival Triumph class-action lawsuit
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The legal claims will likely fail, but the pressure on Carnival to make amends will certainly lead to at least cosmetic changes to how the industry handles big accidents.
Less than a week since passengers left the ill-fated Carnival Triumph, the lawsuits are already piling up against Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines.
The latest was filed Wednesday in Galveston by the Mississippi law firm of John Arthur Eaves, which is also representing 80 passengers and family members affected by the Costa Concordia shipwreck last year.
Earlier this week, a Miami law firm filed a proposed class-action suit in federal court in Miami, following two other complaints filed here over the weekend and late last week.
They all stand about the same chance of success, said one South Florida law professor.
"Zero, zilch, zip, nada, not happening,
