I didn’t realize that a reaction like that could occur while merely being in the presence of peanuts...but honestly, if he didn’t have a reaction, don’t sue!
I hope she has to pay a heafty lawyers bill when she loses!
I’m with her on this one. Kids have died from exposures to traces of peanuts. American Airlines had put in writing a policy that they “do not serve peanuts” and then they served them. While it’s always possible that another passenger will have brought something containing peanuts on board, the risk of exposure from that is a LOT less than when the flight crew hands out peanuts to everybody on the plane.
She took reasonable precautions, choosing an airline that had a written policy against serving peanuts, and presumably also carrying an epi-pen for emergency use in case her son somehow got a trace of peanuts from a passenger’s personal snack. This is an issue that everyone is aware of. As a private company, AA should be free to say it’s not their problem, and that they might serve peanuts, but that’s not what they did.
I don’t think she’s doing this for the money. Like most parents who’ve experienced the terror of a child going into anaphylactic shock, she wants to reduce the chance of that happening to another child.