Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Montreal Agreement

A private agreement, signed by most international airlines, waiving both the Warsaw Convention's limitation on liability for death and personal-injury cases (currently about $20,000) and the airline's duecare defenses, raising the liability limit per passenger to $75,000, and providing for absolute liability on the part of the carrier (in the absence of passenger negligence) for all flights originating, stopping, or terminating in the United States. 0 The Montreal Agreement was the result of negotiations in 1965 and 1966 following the United States' denunciation of the Warsaw Convention, based primarily on its low liability limits. - Also termed Agreement Relating to Liability Limitation of the Warsaw Convention and the Hague Protocol.