Widow Sues American Airlines Over Husband’s Clash with Baggage Handler

Debbie Cardarelli has filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, seeking more than $1 million in damages and punitive charges.
Aug. 14, 2018

Richard S. Cardarelli only wanted to retrieve some eye drops from the carry-on bag he had just given an American Airlines employee at Philadelphia International Airport.

They weren’t just eye drops, either. They were medications necessary for his health, owing to a cornea transplant years earlier.

But the American Airlines baggage handler — who had taken the bag at the door of the jet aircraft because there was no room for carry-ons in the small plane — told Cardarelli that he couldn’t touch the bag again, even though it was still sitting in plain sight a few feet away on the boarding bridge.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2018/08/12/widow-sues-american-airlines-over-husbands-clash-with-baggage-handler/?utm_term=.ef0a48e0b4df

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