Experience That Matters
There is no single primary cause of aviation accidents. Pilot error or fatigue may play a big factor, but then so can defective parts and poor maintenance. Weather can play a role, but so can structures or power lines on the ground.
The one thing you can count on right now is that having a law firm that has experience with aviation accident cases will make a positive difference for you and your family.
The aviation accident litigation experience of the attorneys at the San Francisco based law firm of O'Reilly Collins dates back more than 35 years, to the Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crash in 1974. Today, hundreds of millions of dollars in aviation accident verdicts and settlements later, our experience and approach continues to deliver maximum results for our clients in California and throughout the United States.
Aviation Accident Results
- A $165 million dollar settlement for families of those killed when a Boeing 737 crashed in the Republic of the Philippines
- A nearly $15 million dollar jury verdict for a 47-year old passenger injured in a single-engine airplane accident
- A settlement of more than $32 million dollars for a student pilot burned in the crash of a Piper Malibu Single Engine Aircraft — still the largest injury settlement ever in an aviation case
- A jury verdict in excess of $9 million dollars for the families of two pilots killed when their logging helicopter crashed in Alaska
- A jury verdict in excess of $6 million dollars for a passenger injured in an air show helicopter crash
- A confidential settlement for the family of a passenger killed when their helicopter crashed after striking electrical wires
- A $2.5 million dollar jury verdict in a legal malpractice action involving a previous helicopter crash lawsuit that was mishandled by our client's previous attorneys
For information about specific causes or types of aviation accidents our lawyers have experience with, see the following pages:
