Author: Scott D. Cunningham
Scott heads the firm’s Los Angeles office and has extensive experience representing aerospace insurers, foreign and domestic airlines and aircraft manufacturers as lead counsel in cases involving wrongful death and…
It is no secret within the insurance defense bar that a growing number of plaintiffs’ attorneys are artificially inflating the value of their personal injury cases against defendants with large…
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled on a case of first impression involving international air transportation and whether the filed rate doctrine bars certain antitrust claims…
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted summary judgment to Singapore Airlines (SIA) in a lawsuit by a passenger who travelled from California to India on…
The area surrounding an airport is often a noisy place, with airplanes carrying passengers and cargo continuously arriving and landing. In the U. S., the flight paths that aircraft approaching…
One issue that arises inevitably in air disaster litigation in the United States is whether the federal court can assert jurisdiction over all cases so that they can be resolved…
In Narayanan v. British Airways, No. 11-55870 (9th Cir. Mar. 19, 2014), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that, under the plain language of Article 35(1) of the Montreal…
In a decision that could have far-reaching implications for the air freight industry, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in Chubb Insurance Company of Europe, S.A. v. Menlo…