What I'll be interested to see is to what extent this ruling may then apply to other operations and just how far one takes the view of doing "nothing to investigate into the safety of the proposed helicopter flight".
Does that duty of care stop at the employer of the passenger or does it extend to the operator and/or the pilot, in fact what about the relationship between pilots? and surely death isn't the only pre-requisite to file such action?
There would seem a lot of recent commercial helicopter incidents in the last two years alone that would come into focus depending on how these things are interpreted.