By The Law Offices of John Day, P.C. on Jun 01, 2023 10:59 am
A federal judge in Chicago has agreed to allow a jury to consider whether airplane crash victims experience preimpact terror before their deaths. Faced with no Illinois law directly on point, the federal court determined that the reasoning in Haley v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 746 F.2d 311, 314-15 (5th Cir. 1984), was persuasive. The Haley could found the courts of Louisiana would permit recovery for emotional distress “during a negligently produced ordeal”
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