A: To win your Florida cruise ship accident case, you have to prove that the cruise line did something wrong. What does that mean? In legal terms, that means that the cruise line was negligent. Well, what does that mean? That means that the cruise line fell below the standard of care required of them. That is reasonable care under the circumstances. An example of that might be if they failed to clean up a spill within a reasonable amount of time or if they failed to warn passengers of some other danger that was an open and obvious.