....and if you look into the settlements of such lawsuits, the ones gaining the most are the lawyers. This is one of the worse things about having anything to do with the US at all.....lawsuits for hot coffee, because someone rummaged in your garbage and cut themselves, a playing child runs through a glass door.....sane people distance themselves from this sort of thing. Note that these are British and Norwegians, flying a BA aircraft in the UK.....and yet they seem to think that the suit can be filed in Illinois. There will be some legal argument as to why a court in Illinois has some sort of jurisdiction....the same sort of arguments that get convicted murderers and rapists back on the street sooner rather than later.
I hate this kind of crap.