Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Ansett Australia Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 3, 2004No. 02-56473PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:
We are called upon once again to construe the meaning of the term “accident,” as it is used in the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air, Oct. 12,1929, 49 Stat. 3000, T.S. No. 876 (1934), reprinted in note following 49 U.S.C. § 40105 (the ‘Warsaw Convention” or the “Convention”). We hold that neither the plaintiffs development of deep vein thrombosis (“DVT”) nor the airline’s failure in this case to warn of the risks of developing DVT during air travel constitutes an accident for purposes of the Warsaw…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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