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Aviation Accidents

If you have been injured in an aviation accident in Connecticut, knowing your legal rights can provide both financial relief and peace of mind. Aviation accidents can cause life-threatening physical injuries and trauma that can include financial damage to victims of negligence.

We are currently evaluating aviation accident injury claims in Connecticut and throughout the U. S. Victims of aviation accidents, negligence, and personal injury in Connecticut have the right to seek compensation for their injuries, damages, pain and suffering, loss of quality of life, loss of wages, and medical expenses. Our aviation accident injury lawyers handle all types of accident claims. We also handle every type of aviation accident claims and airplane accident compensation cases.

Many aviation accidents occur due to negligence on the part of one of others involved.

 

Recent Aviation Injury Settlements & Verdicts
$15 Million Airplane Accident Settlement: For a 47-year old passenger injured in a single-engine airplane accident
$6 Million Helicopter Crash Settlement: For a passenger injured in an air show helicopter crash.
$3 Million Aviation Wrongful Death Settlement: For family of a missionary who died in plane crash caused by broken cam shaft gear.
$2 Million Slip & Fall Settlement: For passenger exiting stairs on a commuter plane defective metal handrail caused him to fall to ground causing his death.
$13.75 Million Wrongful Death Settlement: Caused by a defective airplane engine.
$7.3 Million Helicopter Sightseeing Tour Settlement: For the wrongful death caused by the crash of a helicopter on a sightseeing tour.
$26 Million Plane Crash Settlement: For the wrongful deaths of a husband and wife in a North Carolina plane crash.
$32 Million Single Engine Crash Settlement: For a student pilot flying a Piper Malibu Single Engine Aircraft was burned in the crash.
$9 Million Helicopter Accident Settlement: For two families of two pilots killed when their logging helicopter crashed.
$27.5 Million Small Plane Crash Settlement: For families of skydivers killed in a small plane crash.
$2 Million Commercial Air Crash Settlement: For the death of a 7–year–old child killed on Alaska Airlines Flight 261 from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to San Francisco.
$4 Million Charter Plane Settlement: For a wrongful death in a charter plane crash that occurred overseas.

Aviation Accident Statistics
50% of all airplane accidents are caused by pilot error.
21% of all airplane accidents are caused by some type of mechanical error.
21% of all airplane accidents are caused by weather conditions.
The most unsafe times for an aircraft accident to occur are during takeoff and landing.
Statistics show that up to 80 p& of all aviation accidents can be attributed to some type of human error.
When calculating by distance, airplanes are 62 times safer than cars and trucks.
In a study by Popular Mechanics it was determined that the safest place to sit in an airplane is near the tail.
The FAA has stated that no one seat is safer than any other in a commercial airliner.
Pilots with less than 100 hours of flying experience account for 45% of all fatal aviation crashes.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), there were 1,990 aircraft accidents nationwide in 2007.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), there were 1,670 aircraft accidents nationwide in 2007.
The National Transportation Safety Board estimated a total of nearly 24 million flight hours in 2007.
The Air Crash Record Office (ACRO) reported 876 deaths due to airplane accidents and 147 separate airplane crashes in 2008.
The worst year for aviation crash deaths was 1972, when 3,214 people died in airplane crashes.
The safest year for airplane accidents was 2007, when 766 people died in aviation accidents.
Helicopter accidents statistics show a rate was 7.5 for every 100,000 flight hours.
Airplane accident statistics show a rate of about 0.175 per 100,000 flight hours.

Need an Experienced Defective Medical Device Injury Lawyer in Connecticut?

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If you have been injured by a Defective Medical Device in Connecticut, knowing your legal rights can provide both financial relief and peace of mind.

We are currently evaluating Defective Medical Device injury claims in Connecticut and throughout the U. S. Victims of Defective Medical Devices, negligence, and personal injury have the right to seek compensation for their injuries, damages, loss of wages, and medical expenses. Our defective product injury lawyers handle all types of defective medical device claims. We also handle every type of Defective Medical Device claim and injury compensation cases.

A Defective Medical Device can cause life-threatening physical injuries and trauma that can include financial damage to victims of negligent drivers. Injured victims must deal with large and unforeseeable medical expenses, loss of wages, pain, suffering and loss of quality of life. Family members also can suffer economic loss, mental anguish and loss of companionship in caring for an injured family member.
Many Defective Medical Device injuries occur due to negligence on the part of the manufacturers. When a defective medical device injury is caused by another party’s negligence you are entitled compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering as well as other damages.

 

Recent Defective Medical Device Injury Settlements & Verdicts
$19 Million Heart By Pass Settlement: For Failure to Apply Correct Standard of Care in Heart Bypass Surgery.
$8.5 Million Medical Device Settlement: Against Ethicon Endo Surgical, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, in a defective medical device case.
$8 Million Fosomax Settlement: Verdict against Merck in the first ever plaintiff’s Fosamax trial.
$800,000 Birth Delivery Settlement: For Infant that sustained injury during birth delivery.
$775,000 Medical Device Settlement: Against defective medical device manufacturer resulting in injury and settlement.
$2.05 Million Defective Medical Device Settlement: Defective medical device product and settled with the manufacturer of the device and the hospital where the injury occurred.
$120 Million Defective Bone Screw Settlement: $120 Million total settlement for plaintiffs injured as a result of implantation of spinal bone screws.
$3.3 Million Defective Insulin Pump Settlement: Defective product liability action against manufacturer of Insulin Pump.
$1.1 Million Hospital Radiologist Settlement: Against Hospital Radiologist for causing a brainstem herniation

Defective Product Statistics
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reports that there are nearly 30 million injuries associated with defective consumer products each year.
Each year, more than 220,000 children are injured each playing with defective toys.
Each year in the U. S. about 7 percent of all personal injury lawsuits are defective product liability cases.
Defective products cause more than $500 billion in property damage and thousands of deaths and injuries each year.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls between 200-300 defective products each year.
In 2009, children’s products accounted for 41% of CPSC-recalled defective products.
Each year in the U. S. about 26 infants die from crib-related deaths.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that defective consumer products caused 176 deaths and more than 19,000 hospitalizations in 2007.
Of 235,300 toy-related injuries treated in emergency rooms in the U. S. an estimated 172,700 (73%) occurred to children less than 15 years of age.
Of 235,300 toy-related injuries treated in emergency rooms in the U. S. an estimated 82,300 335%) were to children younger than 5 years of age.
155,400 children, ages 14 and under were treated at hospital emergency rooms for toy-related injuries in 2003.
There were an estimated 229,600 toy-related injuries in the U. S. from 2006-2008.
In 2002, there were more than 200,000 emergency room visits from defective products according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Defective Product liability lawsuits have the second highest average settlement payout at about $300,000.
Medical malpractice cases typically have the highest settlement awards, at an average of $600,000.

Need an Experienced Defective Product Injury Lawyer in Connecticut?

John Thomas Posted in Defective ProductsLeave a comment

If you have been injured by a Defective Product in Connecticut, knowing your legal rights can provide both financial relief and peace of mind.

We are currently evaluating Defective Product injury claims in Connecticut and throughout the U. S. Victims of Defective Products, negligence, and personal injury have the right to seek compensation for their injuries, damages, loss of wages, and medical expenses. Our defective product injury lawyers handle all types of Defective Product claims. We also handle every type of Defective Product claim and injury compensation cases.
A Defective Product can cause life-threatening physical injuries and trauma that can include financial damage to victims of negligent drivers. Injured victims must deal with large and unforeseeable medical expenses, loss of wages, pain, suffering and loss of quality of life. Family members also can suffer economic loss, mental anguish and loss of companionship in caring for an injured family member.

Many Defective Product injuries occur due to negligence on the part of the manufacturers. When a Defective Product injury is caused by another party’s negligence you are entitled compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering as well as other damages.

 

Recent Defective Product Injury Settlements & Verdicts

$19 Million Heart By Pass Settlement: For Failure to Apply Correct Standard of Care in Heart Bypass Surgery.
$8.5 Million Medical Device Settlement: Against Ethicon Endo Surgical, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, in a Defective Product case.
$8 Million Fosomax Settlement: Verdict against Merck in the first ever plaintiff’s Fosamax trial.
$800,000 Birth Delivery Settlement: For Infant that sustained injury during birth delivery.
$775,000 Medical Device Settlement: Against Defective Product manufacturer resulting in injury and settlement.
$2.05 Million Defective Product Settlement: Defective Product product and settled with the manufacturer of the device and the hospital where the injury occurred.
$120 Million Defective Bone Screw Settlement: $120 Million total settlement for plaintiffs injured as a result of implantation of spinal bone screws.
$3.3 Million Defective Insulin Pump Settlement: Defective product liability action against manufacturer of Insulin Pump.
$1.1 Million Hospital Radiologist Settlement: Against Hospital Radiologist for causing a brainstem herniation

Defective Product Statistics

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reports that there are nearly 30 million injuries associated with defective consumer products each year.
Each year, more than 220,000 children are injured each playing with defective toys.
Each year in the U. S. about 7 percent of all personal injury lawsuits are defective product liability cases.
Defective products cause more than $500 billion in property damage and thousands of deaths and injuries each year.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls between 200-300 defective products each year.
In 2009, children’s products accounted for 41% of CPSC-recalled defective products.
Each year in the U. S. about 26 infants die from crib-related deaths.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that defective consumer products caused 176 deaths and more than 19,000 hospitalizations in 2007.
Of 235,300 toy-related injuries treated in emergency rooms in the U. S. an estimated 172,700 (73%) occurred to children less than 15 years of age.
Of 235,300 toy-related injuries treated in emergency rooms in the U. S. an estimated 82,300 335%) were to children younger than 5 years of age.
155,400 children, ages 14 and under were treated at hospital emergency rooms for toy-related injuries in 2003.
There were an estimated 229,600 toy-related injuries in the U. S. from 2006-2008.
In 2002, there were more than 200,000 emergency room visits from defective products according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Defective Product liability lawsuits have the second highest average settlement payout at about $300,000.
Medical malpractice cases typically have the highest settlement awards, at an average of $600,000.