Thecomplaint names twoHiltonemployees, Ross KleinandAmar Lalvani, who were employed by Starwood, butthenjoined Hilton to workon the development ofitsnewDenizenbrandofhotels.
There were 79 onboard blazes from 1990 to 2011, according to a list compiled by RossKlein, a professor who specializes in cruise industry issues at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada.
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), which provides regulations for cruise ships, does not keep complete records of marine casualties but recorded fewer than 300 incidents since 2000, while the independent website CruiseJunkie, run by sociology professor RossKlein of Memorial University Newfoundland, has published reports of 644 incidents in the same period.