Supreme Court: US Airways can’t grab employee’s car-crash settlement


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If US Airways had prevailed, its employee would have essentially served as the airline's collection agent, the Supreme Court ruled.

U.S. Airways Inc. can't grab the money an injured employee won in a lawsuit over a motor vehicle accident without sharing in his legal costs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in a case from Pittsburgh federal court. The airline paid $66,866 in medical bills for James McCutchen of East Liverpool, Ohio, after he was injured in a three-car ac