Justinic refused to make the flight due to safety concerns. More than week later, his employer informed him he was terminated.
A Texas pilot was awarded nearly $2 million by a Boone County jury after he was fired for refusing to fly into potentially bad weather. Raymond Justinic, who was regularly assigned to pilot corporate aircraft for the Crestview Hills-based company, Columbia Sussex, was asked to fly an insurance adjuster to the Caribbean in September 2017, according to court documents. Documents say the insurance adjuster was tasked with assessing hurricane damage to one of the company’s properties.
