Lawyer: Dragged passenger will need reconstructive surgery
CHICAGO — United Airlines and the city of Chicago may find themselves the target of lawsuits by the man who was dragged off a United plane in Chicago last week after refusing to give up his seat.
One of Dr. David Dao’s lawyers, Thomas Demetrio, said as much Thursday during a news conference in which he suggested that Dao could be “a poster child” for the mistreatment of passengers by the airline industry.
“It took something like this to get a conversation going,” attorney Demetrio said.
Dao was forcibly removed from a fully-booked United Express flight out of O’Hare International Airport on Sunday to make room for crew members.