Personal Injury Law

Cruise Line Employee Charged with Burglarizing Passengers

By Mark R. Hanson

 Recently it was reported in newspapers across South Florida that a Royal Caribbean Cruise Line employee was using her job position to ascertain the names and addresses of people for whom she had booked vacations. She would pass the names of the customers, their addresses and vacation dates along to her husband and his conspirators so that the RCL customers' homes could be broken into and burglarized. Bethsaida Sandoval and her husband were recently arrested on multiple counts of conspiracy, grand theft and burglary.

Royal Caribbean has denied any knowledge of Bethsaida Sandoval's prior criminal history. However, I was able to simply run her name through the Miami-Dade County Clerk's office to learn that she had been previously arrested for grand theft and forgery. Royal Caribbean has claimed that they performed an appropriate background check and even if that were so, RCL decided to hire Ms. Sandoval and place her in a position of trust and give her the fiduciary duty of protecting Royal Caribbean's customer's identity. What a big mistake.

I now have the pleasure of representing someone victimized by Royal Caribbean's failure to properly investigate their employee and thereafter, supervise her. RCL has continued to deny responsibility and have offered a ridiculously low offer of compensation to these passengers who have been victimized by their own employee. We have recently filed suit and we will let a jury decide whether or not Royal Caribbean's conduct was acceptable. What do you think?
 
Click on the following link to read more on the former Royal Caribbean employee charged with burglarizing passengers.

Full post as published by LaBovick Injury Law Blog on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).