A Miami-area law firm eventually filed suit. That statement strengthened the families' suspicions that they are dealing with an organized group. The families of the other two men, Marquez and Bermudez, have not yet investigated the allegations but remain in close contact with the Ryans and Clemetsons. I think this is going to be tossed out. Everyone knows it's bogus.
Intense competition heats up among attorneys to sign up as many victims' family members as possible.
The vast majority of claims are legitimate. Both involved doctored hospital records placing dead or injured people at the scene of the accident. The Alaska Airlines crash isn't the first time such claims have cropped up on American soil. Several bogus cases came in the aftermath of a 1970s Florida air disaster. A 1995 American Airlines crash in Cali, Colombia, killed 159 people and generated numerous such lawsuits.