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LONDON (AP) - Britain's highest court of appeal, the House of Lords, on Thursday ruled against airline passengers who suffered potentially fatal blood clots linked to air travel, rejecting their efforts to sue the airlines for compensation.
The House of Lords rejected claims brought on behalf of eight British Airways PLC passengers or their families who either died or claim their lives were impaired after developing clots known as deep-vein thrombosis, or DVT.
The passengers had asked the court to rule that the condition — which has been linked to long-haul flights — be considered an accident under the Warsaw Convention, which covers compensation for death and injury during air travel.
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