Practice Areas - Airplane Crash Litigation
- Aviation Accidents
- Aviation Litigation
- Wrongful Death
- Truck Accidents
- Automobile Accidents
| - Catastrophic Injury
- Head Injury
- Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries
- Plaintiff's Personal Injury
- Railroad Accidents and Injuries
- Railroad Crossing Accidents
|
|
|
|
| Contact Info | Telephone: 216-694-5220
Fax: 216-771-2242
http://www.nationalaviationlaw.com
|
|
| University | Cleveland State University, B.A., cum laude, 1979 |
|
| Law School | Cleveland Marshall College of Law, J.D., 1982 |
|
| Admitted | 1982, Ohio, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. District Court Northern and Central Districts of California, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court, Central District of Utah, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; 2005, District of Columbia |
|
| Memberships | Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association; Ohio State Bar Association; American Bar Association; The District of Columbia Bar; Lawyer-Pilots Bar Associations; Ohio Association of Justice; The American Association of Justice. |
|
| Born | Cleveland, Ohio |
|
| Biography | Member, Moot Court, 1981-1982. Featured, "Tragedy's Bottom Line," USA Today, January 5, 2000; "Reaching for the Sky," Scene Magazine, December 20-26, 2001; "Largest Ohio Plane Crash PI Verdict," Ohio Lawyers Weekly, December 22, 1997; Forbes Magazine; Seattle Times; New York Times and numerous other major news publications. Appointed Member, Steering Committee in Mass Disasters including: Air Crash Disaster at San Juan, Puerto Rico; American Airlines Flight 5966 crash at Kirksville, Missouri; East Coast Jets Flight 81 crash at Owatonna, Minnesota; Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crash at Taipei, Taiwan; Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash near Los Angeles; Egypt Air Flight 990 Crash near Nantucket, MA; Swissair Flight 111 Crash near Nova Scotia; ValuJet Flight 592 crash near Miami; USAir Flight 427 crash near Pittsburgh; USAir Flight 405 crash near New York; City of New Orleans Amtrak crash near Chicago; USAir Flight 1493 crash at Los Angeles; USAir Flight 4743 crash at Beckley, WV; Comair Flight 3272 crash near Detroit; United Airlines Flight 232 at Sioux City, IA; Delta Flight 810 disaster near Los Angeles; Burlington Northern Train collision near Los Angeles, Ca. Author: "Liability of Homeowners and Private Recreational Operators for Swimming Pool Accidents," Cleveland State University, May 1984; "Physician Liability for Errors/Omissions in Medical Record Documentation," St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, 1992. Lecturer: 36th Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers Award Convention, "An Overview of Commercial Aviation Litigation," May 1993; "Aviation Law and Contracts - Implications of the Warsaw Convention," Columbus, OH, 1994; "Proving Damages in Aviation Cases," Cleveland, Ohio, October 1997; "'Substantial Federal Question' Jurisdiction: A Survey of the Current Law," Vol. 14, No. 2, AAJ Aviation Law Section Newsletter, Winter 2007. |
|
| Reported Cases | Beck v. Alaska Air Group, 2002 U.S. Dist. Lexis 10017 (N.D.Cal. May 24, 2002); In re: Air crash off Point Mugu, 145 Fed.Sup.2d 1156 (N.D.Cal. 2001); Dowe v. Amtrak, 2004 U.S. Dist. Lexis 7233 (N.D. Ill., April 26, 2004); Dowe v. Amtrak, 2003 U.S. Dist. Lexis, 18538 (N.D. Ill., October 21, 2003); Garber v. Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co., 22 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1090 (6th Cir. 1999). |
|
| ISLN | 905567578 |
|
View Ratings & Reviews |
Profile Visibility  | | #984 in weekly profile views out of 8,806 lawyers in Cleveland, Ohio | | #185,926 in weekly profile views out of 1,447,639 total lawyers Overall |
|
|