Personal Injury Law

Two Cook County Personal Injury Lawsuits Seek Damages from Airlines

In Cook County Circuit Court, two Illinois personal injury lawsuits have been filed seeking financial recovery from US Airways and Southwest Airlines, respectively. The alleged injuries took place while the planes were in flight.

On Friday, Diana Burgess filed her Cook County injury complaint against U.S. Airways for injuries she sustained while on a flight to Chicago in August 2008. Burgess contends that she experienced emotional and physical trauma because the airline allowed a passenger to take a skateboard that came with ?heavy sharp metal wheels? on the plane. The person stowed the skateboard in the compartment over her head but there was nothing to keep it in place.

She is seeking unspecified damages.

In another Cook County injury complaint, this one involving injuries to a minor, the skies may have been a little too friendly for the plaintiff. The Chicago man is suing Southwest Airlines because he claims that the airline?s flight attendants failed to protect the teenager during a flight headed to Orlando, Florida on July 13, 2008 from the sexual advances of an older female who also allegedly offered him drugs.

The father is accusing the flight attendant of ignoring the boy?s requests that he be transferred to another seat. His father says that the experience scared the teenager to the degree that he refused to fly home by himself. His dad had to fly over to get him so they could travel together.

In his Cook County injuries to a minor complaint, the plaintiff is seeking over $50,000 in damages.

Suit: Passenger hurt on flight after skateboard stored above her head, Sun-Times, July 23, 2010

Suit: Woman injured by falling skateboard on plane, Chicago Breaking News, July 23, 2010

Man says son was sexually harassed on flight, MSNBC, July 13, 2010

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Full post as published by Chicago Injury Attorney Blog on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).