I have a friend who was injured when a flight attendant rammed a beverage cart into a passenger aboard a domestic flight. Does that passenger have a claim against the airlines?
The answer to the question is an unequivocal yes. Although the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) prevents claims against airlines that relate to rates, routes or services, recent cases have specifically found that passengers have claims against the airlines for negligence stemming from their flight attendants or other cabin personnel. Our firm has handles a number of in-flight cases for passengers who sustain injuries due to negligence of the airline or its cabin employees. top I recently read of a commercial airline accident involving an Air Alaska flight from Mexico to a city in California. In reading the news, it was mentioned that the people that were injured or killed on the flight were limited in the amount of money that they could recover. Is this true? Yes. While damages are potentially unlimited for domestic air crashes which cause injury or death to passengers, international flights are governed by the Warsaw Convention and the Montreal Protocol of 1999. Both the Warsaw Conventi
