October 31, 2019
A Delaware federal magistrate judge recommended arbitration in a suit accusing Verizon Wireless of failing to release cellphone signals from a crashed airplane to aid first responders and thereby contributing to a passenger's death, citing a broad arbitration clause in the passenger's wireless service contract.
January 28, 2019
Verizon Wireless refused to release cellphone signals from a crashed airplane to aid first responders, contributing to the death of an injured passenger who succumbed to hypothermia overnight, according to a suit filed Monday in Delaware federal court.