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...case of DVT, many airlines will be forced to do just that in the next few weeks, as the summer holiday season takes off. The death last October of Briton Emma Christofferson, 28, after flying home on Qantas from Australia triggered an avalanche of claims. Melbourne law firm Slater & Gordon has collected 2,300, of which 120 involved deaths. It hopes to file test cases later this month in what all sides see as a legal watershed for the aviation industry. "The cases involve just about every airline flying to and from Australia," says Paul Henderson, heading Slater & Gordon...
...clots might be only a sharp stabbing pain and swelling in the lower leg. In others it might be much more serious - part of the clot may detach itself and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs, where it can cause a fatal obstruction. Last October, British traveler Emma Christofferson, 28, died shortly after flying home from Australia. Last month, a woman in her late 40s suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism during an 11-hour flight between Johannesburg and London. John Belstead, an accident and emergency consultant at Britain's Ashford Hospital, which receives emergency cases from Heathrow Airport, estimates...
...tremendous boost to the local economy," says Jacque Christofferson. She owns a logging, limousine and liquor company--nobody around here finds that the least bit unusual--and two of the three product lines are in great demand at festival time. "Rod does 40% of his annual liquor sales during the festival." Talk about entrepreneurial genius. Liquor them up, then drive them home...
...makes a lot of sense for him to get out of politics at this moment," said Eric P. Christofferson '98, who interned at Citizens Energy last summer. "It's a big loss of influence (in Congress) and a big loss for the district, but there are still strong Democratic forces in the Massachusetts delegation...
Such changes will hopefully help to encourage diversity in future applicant pools, Christofferson explained...