The Law Firm of Motley Rice LLC - Aviation Safety Litigation, Airplane Crashes, Mary Schiavo

Types of Aviation Litigation

WRONGFUL DEATH
In addition to investigating and litigation of all issues of causation, fault and liability, we gather information necessary for establishing financial estate matters and present and future financial and other losses. Included are damages arising from wrongful death, which fall into the following categories: economic loss (lost income), non-economic loss (pain and suffering), survival damages (fear, grief and sorrow), and punitive or exemplary damages.

PERSONAL INJURY
We take numerous actions during the preparation and prosecution of the personal injury claim or suit. When injured due to negligence or careless actions of others, the victim is entitled to payment for various damages, which we will work to obtain. These include such things as compensatory damages (property damages, medical expenses, lost earnings, "other" damages, and future damages), general damages, loss of consortium, emotional damages, and punitive or exemplary damages.

PRODUCT LIABILITY
Product liability law is complex and different from ordinary personal injury law, but with a set of rules often making different theories of damage recovery available to the injured victims. Claims are usually based on state laws and brought under theories of breach of warranty, negligence, or strict liability. To avoid a statute of limitations defense, consulting an attorney immediately is important.

CLASS ACTIONS
Other nations' laws sometimes permit class actions to be brought to redress mass disaster losses. We have brought such class actions in several countries and have teamed with in-country co-counsel to achieve the legal and financial results for our clients.

CROSS BORDER LITIGATION
With more and more U.S. airlines flying foreign manufactured aircraft, any air crash has the potential to present multinational and multilingual litigations. Motley Rice is the world-wide plantiffs' leader in multinational litigations, successfully tracking defendants, evidence, and assets on every continent and in dozens of countries, including hostile nations and terrorist states. With in-country cocounsel, we have sought justice for plaintiffs in many of countries.