Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 23, 2010No. 09-1045PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Jocelyn Roberts, a flight attendant, was injured while working on a March 6, 2005, flight from Boston to Las Vegas for Song LLC, which was owned and operated by Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Delta”). She received a lump sum workers’ compensation payment from Song and Delta’s insurer, which insured both Delta and Song under the same policy. Nonetheless, Roberts sued Delta for negligence. She said that her employer was Song, not Delta, and so she was free, under Massachusetts workers’ compensation law, to sue Delta on a theory that Delta was a liable third party. Delta removed the…
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