Legal Opinion
Somes Ex Rel. Somes v. United Airlines, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 11, 1999No. 1:98-cv-10183PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND DECISION
LASKER, District Judge.
Jamie Somes commenced this suit against United Airlines under the Massachusetts wrongful death statute, Mass. Gen. Laws, ch. 229, § 2. On October 18, 1995, her husband, Steven Somes, suffered a cardiac arrest and died while traveling from Boston to San Francisco aboard United Airlines Flight 37. Mrs. Somes alleges that United is liable because it failed to equip its aircraft with certain medical equipment, including an automatic external defibrillator, and because her husband would have survived if the in-flight emergency medical kit had contained…
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