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Judge Clips Cantor Fitzgerald's $800 Million Lost Profits Claim Against American Airlines in WTC Case
Publication Date: 2011-01-19
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Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 of its 1,000 employees in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. But American Airlines, whose plane was flown into the tower that housed Cantor's office, had no duty to Cantor to protect its employees. So the financial firm can't claim damages stemming from business relationships it lost when its people died.

October 29, 1999 |

First Swissair 111 Case in United States Settled

Aviation attorney Arthur Alan Wolk announced the first settlement on behalf of one of the 135 American passengers that died last year in Swissair flight 111's tragic plunge into the waters off Halifax, Nova Scotia. Though he did not disclose the financial terms of the settlement, Wolk said he would donate a portion of his fee to establish a panel of unbiased experts to study and recommend critical improvements in aircraft wiring and fire safety.
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March 04, 2002 |

Swissair Defendants Immune From Punitive Damages

Dealing a significant legal setback to the remaining plaintiffs suing over the September 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the Nova Scotia coast, a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled that most of the defendants are immune from punitive damages because the case is governed by both the Warsaw Convention and the Death on the High Seas Act. The defendants include Swissair, Delta Airlines, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.
7 minute read
September 11, 2003 |

Sept. 11-Related Airline Suits Will Proceed

American and United Airlines, aviation security companies and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had a duty of care to those who were injured, killed or suffered property damages as a result of the Sept. 11 hijackings and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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September 10, 2003 |

Sept. 11-Related Suits Against Airlines Allowed to Proceed

American and United Airlines, aviation security companies, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had a duty of care to those who were injured, killed or suffered property damages as a result of the Sept. 11 hijackings, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting a motion to dismiss the lawsuits and paving the way for discovery and trial or settlement for those who opt out of the federal Victim Compensation Fund.
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October 16, 2007 |

Federal Judge Unclots Path for Deep Vein Thrombosis Suits Against Airlines

Deep vein thrombosis has never become the windfall "asbestos of the air" that eager plaintiffs attorneys had predicted. But in a Friday decision, a San Francisco federal judge renewed the hopes of air travelers -- and their attorneys -- who say airline screw-ups resulted in life-threatening blood clots. Northern District of California Chief Judge Vaughn Walker wrote that in cases alleging an unforeseeable circumstance -- rather than a failure to alert passengers to DVT -- the claims may move forward.
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July 17, 2009 |

Judge Narrows Discovery for 9/11 Federal Claims

Defendants being sued for negligence in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will not be able to depose six FBI agents on the government's investigation into the attacks, Southern District of New York Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled Thursday. Airlines, airline security companies and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had hoped the depositions might show that the government's failure to stop the terrorists was so egregious that the attacks would have happened regardless of any negligence on their part.
4 minute read
September 17, 2004 |

New Tort Encounters Turbulence

When American Airlines settled a claim in 2002 that the carrier was liable for a blood clot that a passenger developed en route from New York to Paris, the man's condition, deep vein thrombosis, seemed poised to become a lucrative new area of litigation. But despite scores of identical filings, there have been no settlements since then. And two recent appellate court decisions have cast new doubt about the legal viability of the claim that airlines have a duty to warn passengers about DVT.
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