Carnival Cruise Line is facing a new maritime personal injury lawsuit after a Florida resident said he suffered serious burns on the Lido Deck of Carnival Magic during a voyage in May 2025. Jorge Luis Alverio Nunez filed the complaint in the Southern District of Florida on 11th May 2026, seeking damages exceeding $5 million.
The filing says the injury happened on 21st May 2025, when Nunez walked barefoot from the pool area to a nearby lounge chair where his shoes had been left, a distance he described as roughly twenty steps. The complaint says the deck surface had become dangerously hot and caused serious second-degree burns to his feet.
Nunez says the burns left him in severe pain and required hospital treatment, and he claims the injuries also caused physical disfigurement and ongoing mobility problems. He accuses Carnival of negligence, saying the company allowed unsafe conditions to exist, failed to adequately warn passengers about the risk and did not take steps that could have prevented the deck from reaching unsafe temperatures.
The lawsuit says there were no warning signs in place and no verbal announcements telling guests that walking barefoot could pose a hazard. It also alleges that other passengers have suffered similar injuries on earlier sailings, and it references one alleged previous case in which severe burn injuries reportedly led to a passenger requiring an amputation below the knee.
At the time of the incident, Carnival Magic was operating short cruises to destinations across the Bahamas and Caribbean. That detail matters because the suit centers on a question that has followed cruise travelers for years: whether a pool deck can become hot enough to cause the kind of injuries Nunez says he suffered, and whether the line had enough notice of the risk to act before a passenger was hurt.
Passenger complaints about hot pool decks have circulated on social media in recent years, and cruise operators also commonly advise guests to wear footwear on exposed deck surfaces. The lawsuit does not resolve whether Carnival Magic’s deck actually reached temperatures capable of causing the burns described in the complaint, but it does put that question at the center of a case that now turns on notice, warnings and what the company did before a barefoot passenger crossed the Lido Deck.
For Nunez, the case is about more than a painful scrape or a temporary injury. If the allegations are proved, the deck was not just uncomfortably hot; it was dangerous enough, he says, to leave lasting harm.
