In a somewhat surprising conclusion to a study conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), it was recently announced that airplanes equipped with ‘glass cockpits’, or digitized flight data displays, have not proven to be any safer than planes that operate with conventional, non-digital instrumentation. The study, which examined over 8,000 single engine planes […]
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Bus Company Responsible For Fatal Phoenix Interstate Crash Was Operating Illegally; FMCSA Granted Emergency Action To Shut Down Carrier
The company involved in the fatal, March 5 bus crash outside of Phoenix, Arizona had been denied passenger carrier operating authority in April, 2009, but continued to operate anyways, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). Pursuant to an emergency request by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Tierra Santa, Inc., was ordered […]
NTSB Releases Its 2010 List Of ‘Most Wanted’ Transportation Safety Improvements: Aircraft Icing and Reducing Operator Fatigue Included
In the middle of February, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced its 2010 Federal Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, addressing concerns in the areas of rail, marine, aviation and highway safety. Each issue within the individual areas was assigned a status color related to actions taken thus far in response to the […]
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Rolls Out Phase One Of Driver Pre-Employment Screening
In line with the upcoming, nation-wide implementation of Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) launched Friday the initial phase of its Driver Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP). The PSP, one of the many changes the FMCSA is making to the current regulations governing large motor carriers, will enable carrier […]
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Preparing To Implement Initiative Aimed At Improving Trucking Safety Standards
In an effort to enhance and update the current safety standards of the trucking industry, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is in the process of finalizing and nationally introducing a initiative two years in the making. Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) is a program designed by the FMCSA which introduces an updated enforcement and […]
Wisconsin Law Journal’s Verdict and Settlement Report 2009: Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Case Among Highest
Document: Wisconsin Law Journal’s Verdict and Settlement Report 2009 Each year the Wisconsin Law Journal’s Verdict & Settlement Reporter publishes a list of the largest verdicts and settlements featured in that publication. In the 2009 list, a $6.9 million settlement obtained by Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop attorneys in a lawsuit arising from a semitruck collision is featured. […]
FAA Slaps American Eagle Airlines With Proposed $2.5 Million Fine For Flying With Improper Cargo Weight Calculations
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Monday that a $2.5 Million fine was being proposed against American Eagle Airlines for operating a multitude of flights with erroneous cargo weight data. The FAA stated that between June and October of 2008, American Eagle operated no fewer than 154 flights where the logged baggage weight entered in cargo […]
A Victory For The Citizens Of Illinois: The Illinois Supreme Court Rules That Medical Malpractice Damage Caps Are Unconstitutional
The Illinois Supreme Court struck down the state’s medical malpractice law today, saying it violates separation of powers by allowing lawmakers to interfere with a judge’s ability to reduce verdicts. All of us at Rapoport Law Offices believe that today the citizens of Illinois experienced a great victory. Our attorneys have been and always will […]
Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. – A Different Kind of Personal Injury Law Firm
Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. is featured in the December 2009 issue of Leading Lawyer Network Magazine / Consumer Edition. As noted in the article, our attorneys focus their legal work on a select number of serious personal injury and wrongful death cases. As a result, the personal injury lawyers in our firm pride themselves on providing […]
American Airlines Flight 331 Governed By Montreal Convention
The December 22, 2009 crash of American Airlines Flight 331 at Kingston, Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport ended a year wrought with many highly publicized – and several devastatingly tragic – aviation disasters. Flight 331, which originated in Miami, Florida, crash landed in bad weather and skidded off the runway, crossed a road and came […]
New Federal Regulation Limits Time Airlines Can Keep Passengers On Board Plane During Tarmac Delays
On December 21, 2009, the U.S. Department of Transportation, (“DOT”), announced a new rule that imposes a three hour limit on the amount of time an airline can keep a passenger on board a domestic flight that has been delayed on the tarmac. Exceptions exist within the rule for concerns of safety or security, or if the […]
Jury Awards $7.1 Million Verdict To Family Of Victim Of Comair Flight 5191 Plane Crash
A jury in Lexington, Kentucky, awarded $7.1 Million to the family of a 39-year-old man killed when Comair Flight 5191 took off from the wrong runway at Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport on August 27, 2006. After a four-day trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, the jury of eight returned […]
American Board of Trial Advocates Selects Personal Injury Lawyer David Rapoport for Membership
Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop is pleased to announce that founding partner, personal injury attorney David Rapoport, has been selected for associate membership to the American Board of Trial Advocates, also known as ABOTA. Admittance to ABOTA is restricted and by invitation only, and its members must possess and adhere to its strict requirements for jury trial […]
Recent Northwest Airlines Overflight Incident Underscores The Need For Cockpit Video Recorders
Aviation safety experts, including the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), have been calling for image recorders in airline cockpits for years. In fact, the NTSB includes this recommendation on its “Most Wanted List” of safety improvements. In the wake of the recent Northwest Airlines incident–in which the pilots of a flight bound for Minneapolis inexplicably overflew […]
Comair Plaintiff May Have The First Loss Of Consortium Claim Ever Tried In Kentucky
Comair plaintiff Jamie Hebert could likely be the first person to litigate a loss of consortium claim in the state of Kentucky. A recent decision by U.S. District Court Judge Karl S. Forrester reinstated Ms. Hebert’s loss of consortium claim against Comair. Ms Hebert lost her husband, Bryan Keith Woodward, in the August 27, 2006 airplane […]
Federal Judge Reinstates Comair Plaintiff’s Loss Of Consortium Claim
On October 9, 2009, United States District Court Judge Karl S. Forrester issued an order reinstating the loss of spousal consortium claim of Jamie Hebert, the last surviving spouse with a wrongful death claim against Comair for the August 27, 2006 crash of Comair Flight 5191. Ms. Hebert’s husband, Bryan Keith Woodward, was killed when […]
Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Surviving Spouses Have The Right To Sue For Loss Of Companionship
On October 1, 2009 the Kentucky Supreme Court issued a ruling granting a surviving spouse the right to sue for loss of consortium damages in a wrongful death case following the death of their spouse, an issue thrust into the spotlight by the litigation surrounding the August, 2006 crash of Comair Flight 5191 at Lexington’s […]
Deadline Approaching To File Lawsuits Against AM2 PAT, Inc., For Contaminated Heparin Syringes
People who became ill as a result of using heparin syringes contaminated with the bacteria Serratia marcescens may be running out of time to file their lawsuit against the manufacturer, AM2 PAT, Inc., (also known as Sierra Pre-Filled). For many people, the statute of limitations to file a claim will expire in November, 2009. As […]
Deadline to File Lawsuit for Illness or Injuries Caused by Contaminated Heparin Syringes Approaching
It has been nearly two years since AM2 PAT, Inc., (also known as Sierra Pre-Filled) manufactured the heparin syringes contaminated with the bacteria Serratia marcescens and sold those syringes to unsuspecting recipients, resulting in severe and debilitating illness. Persons injured by the contaminated syringes may be running out of time to file a heparin lawsuit […]
Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Client Wants Trial for Last Suit in Comair Airplane Crash Case
Document: Widow wants trial for last suit in Comair crash The aviation accident attorneys at Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop are representing the widow and two daughters of a 39-year-old man in a wrongful death lawsuit arising from the Comair Flight 5191 airplane crash. As the three-year anniversary of the tragic airplane crash approached, aviation negligence […]
