Australian court allows DVT plaintiff to appeal
Publish date: 21 September 2004
Issue Number: 1179
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: General
Deep vein thrombosis, otherwise known as economy class syndrome, plaintiffs have been given fresh hope in their legal bid to sue airlines after the Australian High Court granted a right of appeal to a Melbourne man.
The New Zealand Herald reports the court ruled there were important questions of law in the case of 62-year-old Brian Povey against Qantas and British Airways, and a full bench of judges should examine them next year. Povey suffered a stroke from deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, after flying back from Britain in 2000. He and other passengers received a setback when Victoria\'s Court of Appeal ruled his injury was not an accident under the international Warsaw Convention. A US court also recently ruled in Air New Zealands favour in a suit brought by an American woman who collapsed during a stopover in Auckland with blood clots. Full report in the New Zealand Herald
