<div id="story-body-parent"><p id="story-body">A federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday that Norwegian Cruise Line must pay more than $13 million to the victims of a 2003 boiler explosion aboard one of its ships that killed eight workers and injured 10 others.<br /><br />Judge Federico Moreno also levied a $1 million fine against the Miami-based cruise line.<br /><br />A follow-up hearing will be held in June to consider additional restitution issues.<br /><br />The ruling was handed down just four days before the explosion's fifth anniversary. One of four boilers exploded on the 1,035-foot ship SS<em> Norway</em> as it docked in the Port of Miami-Dade on May 25. Most of the dead and injured were Filipino workers. The explosion sent debris and a blast of steam through parts of the 43-year-old ship, once the world's largest passenger vessel. None of the passengers was injured.</p></div><!-- END topix links --><!-- END rail --><div id="story-body-parent2"><p id="story-body2">All the dead suffered severe burns from the superheated steam and oil that burst from the ruptured boiler, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office ruled at the time.<br /><br />The company agreed to plead guilty earlier this month to a charge of gross negligence, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.<br /><br />The company admitted it had &quot;failed to insure that proper inspections, maintenance, and repairs of boiler components were carried out,&quot; according to a U.S. Attorney's Office news release.<br /><br />A preliminary report released in 2005 by the National Transportation Safety Board said the ship had a history of cracks on its boilers dating to the 1970s.<br /><br />The vessel is now in India, where it is being dismantled for scrap, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.<br /><br />The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p></div>