Family sues Royal Caribbean after man allegedly served 33 drinks dies aboard cruise ship

The household of a 35-year-old antheral who died aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise aft allegedly being served 33 alcoholic drinks has filed a suit 7 months aft an autopsy ruled his decease a homicide.

Michael Virgil, 35, and his household boarded Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas successful Los Angeles connected Dec. 13, 2024, for a four-day cruise to Ensenada, Mexico, a travel they intended to beryllium a amusive vacation.

What began arsenic a regular departure rapidly unraveled, the suit says, aft an onboard incidental involving information that would aboriginal go the halfway of a ineligible battle.

The household – which includes Virgil’s longtime fiancée and their young lad who has autism – has filed a wrongful decease ailment successful the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

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Michael Virgil, 35, tin beryllium seen kicking a doorway anterior to being taken down by information connected Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas.  (Obtained by FOX 11 Los Angeles)

The suit alleges the cruise enactment is liable for his death, claiming helium was overserved and past subjected to what it calls the excessive usage of unit and fatal actions taken by unit members.

According to the complaint, the household was directed to a barroom with unrecorded euphony due to the fact that their compartment was not ready. As they waited, Virgil’s past 7-year-old lad grew restless and near with his parent to cheque the room, leaving Virgil alone.

The suit claims that wrong hours of the ship’s departure, unit members negligently served him astatine slightest 33 alcoholic drinks, aft which helium became intoxicated and progressively agitated portion trying to find his cabin.

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Security and unit members allegedly tackled and restrained Virgil, compressing his assemblage until helium stopped moving. The ailment says that astatine the absorption of the unit captain, the unit injected him with the sedative Haloperidol and utilized 3 cans of capsicum spray.

The suit says the operation of restraint, sedative usage and capsicum spray caused important hypoxia, impaired ventilation, respiratory failure, cardiovascular instability and yet cardiopulmonary arrest. The aesculapian examiner aboriginal ruled the decease a homicide.

The aesculapian examiner wrote that the origin of decease was "combined effects of mechanical asphyxia, obesity, cardiomegaly and ethanol intoxication." The study besides said the wounded occurred from "body compression during restraint by aggregate vessel information personnel" and "ingestion of ethanol."

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Virgil’s assemblage remained refrigerated connected committee until the vessel returned to Los Angeles connected Dec. 16, 2024.

"Michael’s household has suffered unimaginable heartache and torment caused by Royal Caribbean, a mega cruise enactment that prioritizes nett implicit rider safety," Kevin Haynes, a spouse astatine Kherkher Garcia, said. "Crew members, including information and aesculapian personnel, are required to acquisition rigorous competency training; it is precise wide that Royal Caribbean is wholly negligent successful the hiring, grooming and supervision of its immense fleet of maritime employees.

"What was expected to beryllium a beauteous household abrogation came to an unimaginably tragic extremity owed to the reprehensible mode the concern – that should person ne'er occurred – was handled," Haynes added.

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An overhead presumption of Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas cruise ship. (Royal Caribbean)

The ailment besides notes that Virgil purchased the "Deluxe Beverage Package," which gives passengers entree to astir each of the ship’s portion offerings, including alcohol. It explains intoxicant income are among Royal Caribbean’s apical gross streams and that the ships are designed with galore outlets serving intoxicant passim the vessels.

"We are seeing an incredibly alarming fig of superior injuries and fatalities connected cruise ships of late," Haynes said. "Our extremity is to unit systemic alteration successful the mode this manufacture operates to guarantee that nary idiosyncratic oregon household experiences calamity similar this again."

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Through the lawsuit, the property of Michael Virgil is seeking judgement for damages nether the Death connected the High Seas Act, including nonaccomplishment of support, inheritance, past and aboriginal net and nett accumulations. The household is besides seeking ceremonial and aesculapian expenses, nonaccomplishment of companionship and extortion and intelligence symptom and suffering, among different claims.

Royal Caribbean told TMZ it does not remark connected pending litigation.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Royal Caribbean for comment.