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‘Insurance Crisis’ Looming for Aviation Industry in 2024, 38-Year Veteran Warns

Posted on December 18, 2023

The London aviation insurance market could be in for a chaotic 2024, Steven Marks of Podhurst Orseck predicts, as reinsurers scramble to cover damages for aircraft crashes that are ballooning far more than planned. December 15, 2023 at 06:41 PM A financial crisis is incoming for the aviation industry in the new year due to […]

Boeing Settles 5 Ethiopian 737 Max Cases, Tees Up 1 For Trial

Posted on June 14, 2023

Law360, Linda Chiem (June 14, 2023, 10:55 PM EDT) — Boeing has agreed to settle five wrongful death cases over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash days before a damages trial starts in Chicago federal court, but the family of a Rwandan United Nations worker will still take their case to trial, attorneys for the […]

Airlines pull Boeing Max jets to inspect electrical systems

Posted on April 09, 2021

Airlines are pulling dozens of Boeing 737 Max planes out of service again, this time to inspect them for a possible electrical problem. By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers, April 9, 2021, 2:27 PM

Lawyers advise Ethiopian Airlines against ‘financially disastrous’ settlement offer by Boeing over 737 MAX crash

Posted on January 22, 2021

By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter Jan. 21, 2021 at 4:15 pm Updated Jan. 21, 2021 at 5:38 pm American attorneys for Ethiopian Airlines, which lost 157 passengers and crew in the second fatal crash of a Boeing 737 MAX in early 2019, have advised the carrier not to accept a settlement Boeing has […]

20/20 Special “Falling from the Sky” An in depth look at the catastrophic Airline crash of Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019

Posted on December 08, 2020

Steve Marks provides commentary on the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft and air crash disasters of Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019  Please click the following link to watch the 20/20 video in its entirety: https://vimeo.com/485644588

Parents whose children died in the 737 Max crashes are haunted by the plane’s imminent return

Posted on November 30, 2020

Sinéad Baker, Business Insider. Parents whose children were killed in crashes involving Boeing’s 737 Max plane say they are angry and upset by the plane’s imminent return to the skies, and can’t believe that the jet is safe. Boeing’s plane had been grounded around the world since March 2019, after the second of two 737 […]

Boeing ‘refusing to release documents’ on 737 Max crash in Ethiopia

Posted on October 27, 2020

By Clodagh Finn, Oct 23, 2020, Irish Examiner Lawyers for relatives of Irish UN worker Mick Ryan, who was killed in an air crash in 2019, have accused Boeing of refusing to hand over relevant documents and of dragging its feet in the case. More than 18 months after 157 people died when a Boeing […]

Daily Business Review: Litigation Department of the Year: Podhurst Orseck

Posted on October 13, 2020

The Miami litigation boutique serves as lead counsel in the case for 120,000 vehicle owners alleging Volkswagen’s defective suspension system was to blame for vehicles running through tires quickly in models build from 2009 to 2017. A $57 million preliminary settlement was drafted with the firm’s Peter Prieto, Matthew Weinshall and Alissa Del Riego representing […]