The mother and adult daughter of the victim of an airplane crash had the capacity to sue the federal government for the alleged negligence of a flight controller, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing a ...

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An aircraft manufacturer’s duty to warn did not encompass an obligation to provide pilot training, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing a $19.4 million verdict.

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The size of the Top Ten Jury Verdicts increased again in 2010. The average increased less than the prior year, however, rising from nearly $145 million to just under $157 million. (The average for 2009 increased nearly $33 million from ...

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In April of last year, a Pennsylvania jury handed down an $89 million verdict against the manufacturer of an airplane carburetor after a crash killed four people and severely injured a fifth.

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Two families have agreed to settle wrongful death lawsuits over the crash of Continental Airlines Connection Flight 3407, which killed 50 people.

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The statute of repose in the federal General Aviation Revitalization Act bars a suit over an aircraft manufacturer’s alleged failure to warn about the potential for ice in the fuel system, the New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled in reversing ...

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