A New Jersey corporate lawyer was injured on a commercial flight.  A fellow passenger opened an overhead compartment and accidentally dropped a laptop on our client’s head. He later took a taxi to the ER, and did not seek any other treatment. There was no medical evidence of an injury. Under the Montreal Convention, the governing law of international air travel, airlines are not liable for the negligence of fellow passengers on domestic flights. For this reason, the case was rejected by Cellino & Barnes and Weitz & Luxenburg. The LAW TEAM was able to settle the case based a novel legal theory that the insurance company claims adjuster did not want to test.