Prescod v. AMR, Inc.

For most travelers affected by air carriers’ misplacement of luggage, the ineon-venience is a fleeting nuisance. In the case before us, however, the district court found that the defendant Airlines’ failure to ensure that Caroline Neischer’s bag remained in her possession was a substantial cause of Neischer’s death nine days after the bag’s confiscation, because the bag contained “a life-sustaining breathing device and related medicine.” The defendants appeal this determination, challenging whether' Neischer’s death resulted from an “accident” as defined by the Warsaw Convention,1 and, if so,…