Liability Risk and Insurance
Little Rock award excludes sexual relationship
Nancy Chu, a survivor of the American Airlines flight 1420 crash at Little Rock in 1999, sought damages, including punitive
damages for the anguish suffered from a sexual relationship with an emergency team member. She claimed American was negligent
in its training of trauma counsellor Jim Strothers, who she alleges took advantage of her while she was in shock. He claims
the affair was consensual but has resigned for violation of company policy.