Legal Opinion
Prisco v. Colgan Air, Inc.
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided March 26, 2012No. Nos. 09-md-2085, 10-CV-1007SPublished
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
WILLIAM M. SKRETNY, Chief Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Presently before this Court is Defendant Colgan Air, Inc.’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs complaint against it as barred by workers’ compensation law.1 (Docket No. 53.2) For the reasons explained below, Colgan’s motion is denied.
II. BACKGROUND
This case arises out of the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 on February 19, 2009, in Clarence Center, *408N.Y. The crash killed all 49 people on board the aircraft and one person on the ground. By order entered October 6, 2009, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict…
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