According to the lawsuit, Carnival Cruise Line would not have let the passenger disembark from the ship after a major heart attack

Carnival Cruise Line, the world's largest cruise operator, is being sued by the family of a 65-year-old passenger, deceased after not being allowed to leave the ship for treatment as a result. A heart attack.

Jeffrey Eisenman's family is suing Carnival Sunshine and his crew for negligence and emotional distress. The ship lacked adequate medical facilities, according to the lawsuit.

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According to the lawsuit, the ship's doctor diagnosed Eisenman as having suffered a "major heart attack" while the ship was docked at Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands on December 3, 2018, reported the Miami Herald. The man died the next day.

"Jeffrey Eisenman died on board while he was confined against his will to the Carnival Sunshine Medical Center," the lawsuit said. "Her family was forced to watch with horror her abuse and her decline into an atrocious death."

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The family claims that Eisenman, to whom the doctor had said that he was to be flown to Miami, would not have been allowed to leave the ship which was then to go to San Juan, Puerto Rico, then that the family had taken out insurance covered the expenses of an air ambulance.

"Inexplicably, all their requests and requests for help have remained unanswered," reads in the lawsuit. "The Carnival Sunshine left Grand Turk with Jeffrey Eisenman and his family, confined aboard against their will, helpless in the face of Carnival's deliberate inhumane conduct of detaining a critically ill man imprisoned in a non-equipped medical center."

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After the death, the family continued to feel moved by the tragedy while the cruise company had told them that the corpse could not be removed to Puerto Rico because it was difficult to know when it would be returned to Hurricane-damaged island time, Bloomberg said.

The ship returned to Cape Canaveral, Florida, five days later.