Aviation

“The indictment of Boeing’s former chief pilot for deceiving federal authorities about the 737 MAX is a corporate whitewash,” said Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago and Lead Counsel in the consolidated litigation against Boeing in the crash of a 737 MAX in Ethiopia in 2019. “The tragic loss of 157 lives could have been prevented had Mark Forkner spoken up but he certainly didn’t act alone.” Clifford…

Clifford Law Offices Founder and Senior Partner, Robert A. Clifford, was interviewed in Politico about the advisory role he played in the U.S. government’s September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) with Ken Feinberg, who was appointed as the first Special Master of the federal government’s VCF. The number of funds dispersed to families included economic loss (such as loss of salary) and “the value of life”, which is trickier to calculate. As a personal injury…

  Tracy Brammeier, attorney at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to speak at the American Bar Association (ABA) Aviation and Space Law Committee’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Annual Conference. Her topic is “Emerging Litigation and Regulatory Issues for the Aviation and Aerospace Industries in a Post-COVID-19 World.” The panel from around the country will address the novel legal issues that have arisen following the pandemic and how various stakeholders have responded…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. CST on ABC News on the latest news to come out from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that a sizable number of Boeing engineers have told the federal government that they are unable to raise safety concerns at the giant company without fear of interference. The FAA reported that it is going…

  Tracy A. Brammeier, associate at Clifford Law Offices and liaison counsel in the complex litigation involving the crash of a Boeing jet in Ethiopia, will be speaking at the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice (TIPS) conference to be held in Washington, D.C., Oct. 28-29. “Emerging Litigation and Regulatory Issues for the Aviation and Aerospace Industries in a Post-COVID-19 World” is the panel on which Brammeier will be speaking that includes Kathryn…

Clifford Law Offices filed more lawsuits in Illinois against United Airlines including on behalf of a couple who sat on the right-hand side of the plane when the airplane’s engine caught fire, forcing the aircraft to return to Denver on Feb. 20, 2021. UA Flight 328, a Boeing 777-222, was en route to Honolulu when four minutes after takeoff the right engine failed and was engulfed in flames. Pilots were forced to turn back to…

Clifford Law Offices filed four more lawsuits in Illinois against United Airlines on behalf of passengers from various states who are suffering significant emotional trauma and distress stemming from a flight that experienced a fiery engine loss while traveling from Denver to Hawaii on Feb. 20, 2021. UA Flight 328, a Boeing 777-200, was en route to Honolulu when four minutes after takeoff the right engine failed and was engulfed in flames. Pilots were forced…

Kevin P. Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking at the 55th Annual Southern Methodist University (SMU) Air Law Symposium on March 24-25. Durkin will be speaking on the consolidated litigation in federal district court in Chicago against Boeing involving the deaths of 157 people when a 737 MAX aircraft crashed in Ethiopia in March, 2019. Clifford Law Offices represents 72 families who lost loved ones in that crash. Durkin has been involved…

There is perhaps no other type of passenger vehicle crash more frightening or devastating than an aviation accident. From the Tenerife Airport Disaster in 1977 to the recent Boeing 737 Max8 crash in Ethiopia, aviation accidents are more often than not catastrophic and devastating for more than just the people on the plane. And while the total number of aviation accidents has decreased since the 1980s, when they happen, the results are utterly detrimental. What…