Supreme Court facade (File photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed a Davao court verdict against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in a suit filed by a prominent physician over delayed luggage in 1998. In a recent decision penned by Associate Justice Ramon Paul L. Hernando, the high court, however, ruled to award only PHP350,000 in damages plus attorney's fees and interest to Dr. Jose M. Tiongco. The original amount awarded by the Davao Regional Trial Court (RTC) was PHP3.6 million. Tiongco, a prominent surgeon and one of the founders of the Medical Mission Group Hospital and Health Services in Davao City, was invited in October 1998 by the United Nations-World Health Organization (UN-WHO) to be a keynote speaker in Almaty, Kazakhstan in November of that year. In the absence of a direct flight from Manila to Kazakhstan, Tiongco had to take a Singapore Airlines flight to Singapore where he took connecting flights of his main carrier KLM to Amsterdam and Frankfurt and then to Alma