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Litigation

Apr. 22, 2015

Southwest Airlines hit with wrongful death suit over response to fatally ill man

A wrongful death lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County Superior Court alleges Southwest Airlines flight attendants left a passenger to die from a heart ailment in the bathroom.


By Phil Johnson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A wrongful death lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County Superior Court alleges Southwest Airlines flight attendants left a passenger to die from a heart ailment in the bathroom.


Kelly Ilczyszyn, the widow of Richard Ilczyszyn and herself a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, alleges attendants heard her husband crying and moaning while suffering a pulmonary embolism, but they treated his emergen...

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