Continental not liable for passenger blood clot-court=20 Wed Aug 2, 2006 1:45pm ET =20 Email This Article | Print This Article | Reprints=20 [-] Text [+] (Repeating to fix "blood" typo in headline SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Continental Airlines (CAL.N: Quote, Profil= e, Research) is not liable for not warning passengers about the risk of blo= od clots during an international flight, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled= on Wednesday. Guy Caman sued Continental after he was diagnosed with Deep Vein Thrombosis= (DVT) following a flight from Los Angeles to Paris in 2002. A lower court = ruled in favor of Continental, and on Wednesday the U.S. Ninth Circuit Cour= t of Appeals upheld the ruling. Caman argued he suffered an accident as established under the Warsaw Conven= tion governing air travel. "We hold that Caman cannot establish his DVT was the result of an 'accident= ' because he cannot show that it resulted from an 'unexpected or unusual ev= ent,'" Morrison England wrote for the three-judge panel. Growing awareness of the problem of DVT has prompted a number of lawsuits. = Last December, Britain's high court also held that DVT, which can sometimes= prove fatal, is not an accident under international rules and thus airline= s are not liable. Airlines maintain that the Warsaw Convention protects them from having to p= ay compensation to passengers for medical issues during normal operation of= an aircraft.=20 =C2=A9 Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. =20 Roger & Amanda La France