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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-apos-involuntarily-bumped-flight-160757342.html

Here's what you get if you're involuntarily bumped from a flight

Under Department of Transportation rules, the compensation you're entitled to for being involuntarily bumped from a flight varies by the extent of the delay:

If the airline can make alternate arrangements that get you to your final destination within one hour of your original arrival time, no compensation is required.

Between one to two hours of your original arrival time on domestic flights, or one to four hours on international flights: 200 percent of your one-way fare, up to a maximum $675.

More than two hours later than your original arrival time on domestic flights, or more than four hours late on international flights: 400 percent of your one-way fare, up to a maximum $1,350.

If your ticket does not show a fare (for example, a frequent flyer award ticket or a ticket issued by a consolidator), your denied boarding compensation is based on the lowest cash, check or credit card payment charged for a ticket in the same class of service (e.g., coach, first class) on that flight, according to the rules.

Airlines are required to pay out that compensation in cash.

PCGyver says

So who's going to win this case. Sucks to be you Dr. Feel good, if this turns out to be true.

Irrelevant. Even if the airline is required to bump persons, they cannot assault people. They must compensate, not use violence. And the airline and airport did. The thugs who committed assault weren't even cops. They had no legal authority.

So yes, the doctor has a damn good case and a sympathetic jury may award him tens of millions. Juries don't have to act rationally, and they don't have to follow the law. Juries are immune to prosecution for voting any way regardless of their decision, the case, and the law. Juries do not even have to give reason for their decision, and they certainly don't have to be honest and forthright with those decision. They just say they are for or against the plaintiff and the amount they reward him.

Furthermore, the last thing United Airlines wants is a prolong civil trial. It would be cheaper to simply pay the victim ten million dollars. Even ignoring all the legal cost, the publicity makes this case a loss from the start for United. Even a slight shift in public perception of the airlines would cost more than a damn generous settlement.

from now on passengers will refuse to be bumped in the hope to get assaulted and win millions

Once your ass hits a seat you paid for it's yours, fuck the airlines if they had a real problem they should have handled it before they boarded.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-demetrio-aviation-lawyer-0428-biz-20170427-story.html

The United victim has the same lawyers as me. I wish they could settle my case in a month.

United victim settled for an undisclosed amount? How much would you take to be treated in such a way? I'd probably settle for $150k. This guy probably got many times more.