Through decades of experience fighting for hundreds of plaintiffs in aviation accident lawsuits, the highly-skilled aviation attorneys at Wisner Baum have developed a reputation for aggressively pursuing justice. Our plane crash attorneys (two of whom are pilots and one of whom is an engineer familiar with aircraft design) have unique insight into the aviation industry and have the knowledge and resources to conduct in-depth investigations into the many factors that often contribute to an aviation incident.
From our offices in California, we have handled lawsuits against most major US airlines – including JetBlue Airways (also known as jetBlue) – and have recovered billions of dollars for our clients across all of our practice areas, including aviation lawsuits. We manage every case with the utmost care, commitment, and compassion, and fight to ensure that each client receives the compensation they deserve.
Contact us today at (310) 207-3233 to get started with a free, no-obligation case evaluation after a JetBlue Airways crash.
Headquartered in Queens, New York, with its main hub at John F. Kennedy International Airport, JetBlue Airways is considered to be a low-cost passenger airline. It is the sixth-largest US airline (based on the number of passengers carried) and operates more than 1,000 daily flights.
JetBlue Airways was incorporated in Aug. 1998, and on Feb. 11, 2000, began offering flights from JFK airport to Buffalo and Fort Lauderdale. In the following years, jetBlue expanded its service throughout the US and into the Caribbean, including a dozen Caribbean destinations on its routes. JetBlue currently flies to 102 destinations in the US, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, and Central America, and has focus cities in Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Long Beach, Orlando, and San Juan.
In 2018, JetBlue had $7.658 billion in revenue and a net income of $188 million. The airline has 22,000 employees. Now a global empire, jetBlue codeshares with dozens of airlines, including: Aer Lingus, Aeroflot, Air China, Air India, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Azul Brazilian Airlines, El Al, Emirates, Etihad Airways, AVA Air, Japan Airlines, JetSuiteX, Hawaiian Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Iberia, Icelandair, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Porter Airlines, South African Airways, Singapore Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, and Turkish Airlines.
As of July 2019, jetBlue’s fleet consists of a mix of Airbus and Embraer aircraft:
While JetBlue has not been involved in any known crashes thus far, it is still a relatively young company, having only been incorporated about 20 years ago. There have also been some incidents involving inflight injury and turbulence, as well as other examples of airline and aircraft personnel negligence.
Some examples of recent incidents:
If you or a family member has been involved in a JetBlue accident or inflight incident, it is in your best interest to speak with an experienced aviation law firm about your case. Our aviation attorneys have decades of experience investigating and litigating complex plane crashes and have recovered billions of dollars for our clients across all of our practice areas, including aviation lawsuits.
To learn more about filing a JetBlue Airways lawsuit, contact Wisner Baum online or call (310) 207-3233 to speak with an attorney.
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In May of 2019, the jury in the case of Pilliod et al. v, Monsanto Company ordered the agrochemical giant to pay $2.055 billion in damages to the plaintiffs, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, a Bay Area couple in their 70s. R. Brent Wisner served as co-lead trial attorney for the Pilliods, delivering the opening and closing statements and cross-examining several of Monsanto’s experts. Wisner Baum managing shareholder, Michael Baum and attorney Pedram Esfandiary also served on the trial team in the Pilliod case.
The judge later reduced their award to $87M. Monsanto appealed the Pilliod’s verdict which the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District denied on August 9, 2021. Monsanto then requested the California Supreme Court review the appeal’s court decision, which the court denied on Nov. 17, 2021. Monsanto (Bayer) then submitted a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court which SCOTUS denied on June 27, 2022, allowing the final judgment of $87M to remain intact.
$289.2 million jury verdict in Monsanto Roundup trial
Wisner Baum co-represented Dewayne “Lee” Johnson in the first Roundup cancer lawsuit to proceed to trial. On Aug. 10, 2018, a San Francisco jury ordered Monsanto to pay $39.25 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages to Mr. Johnson, a former groundskeeper who alleged exposure to Monsanto’s herbicides caused him to develop terminal non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Months after the jury verdict, the judge overseeing the trial reduced the punitive damages to $39.25 million. Mr. Johnson decided to accept the remittitur, bringing the adjusted amount awarded to Mr. Johnson $78.5 million.
Monsanto (Bayer) appealed the verdict and Johnson cross appealed. On July 20, 2020, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict against Monsanto but reduced Mr. Johnson’s award to $20.5 million. The company chose not to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, ending the litigation.
In 2016, Wisner Baum attorney Timothy A. Loranger and six other attorneys in the Plaintiffs’ Management Committee were able to secure a $265 million settlement for victims of the 2015 Amtrak 188 derailment in Philadelphia, one of the largest in the U.S. for 2016.
