Originally Posted by
YEG Guy
Couple of points not in the original article.
The incident happened two years ago almost to the day of serving AC. In AB, new rules of court say the injured pax must make a substantive step forward once every two years. THe pax basically had to decide whether to sue AC or drop the matter all together.
In suing AC the pax will now go into arbitration where the two sides will try and work things out. The pax has sued for everything under the sun just to see what will stick with the arbritator. A lot of the case is likely to be thrown out in the early arbitration stage.
This will not be a McDonald's coffee type case.
Exactly my thoughts when reading the article.. That a statement of claim needs to be filed within the 2 year limitation period. How convenient that the claimant met the deadline.
Suing from Canada, you would not get the punitive damages that you would receive in US court. I wouldn't be surprised if the claimant is stretching the details just a bit.