Wisner Baum helicopter crash attorneys have represented over 800 victims in a wide variety of air disasters, including incidents involving Robinson helicopters. Our firm has conducted extensive investigations related to Robinson R44 crashes, as well as incidents involving the R22 and R66 models. We have even visited the company’s headquarters in Torrance, California on numerous occasions to conduct post-crash inspections of the helicopters involved in our clients’ cases and to take depositions of company personnel.
“Unfortunately, protecting profit margins is often more important to manufacturers than protecting the people that fly their aircraft… Robinson helicopters must do more to identify and resolve safety issues that all too often injury or take the lives of pilots and passengers.” – Helicopter Crash Lawyer Timothy A. Loranger
Do you need to speak with an attorney who can handle your Robinson Helicopter crash case? Call Wisner Baum today at (310) 207-3233 or contact us online.
Robinson Helicopter Company was established in Southern California in 1985. The company produces the R22, a two-seater model; the R44, a four-seater model; and the R66, a turbine-powered model. Over the last 50 years, Robinson has manufactured and delivered more than 13,000 helicopters.
The company employs approximately 1,300 workers in manufacturing, refurbishing older aircraft, and providing training for instructors and technicians. Robinson also offers helicopters made specifically for law enforcement agencies and news organizations.
Robinson’s fleet of helicopters are listed below:
Robinson helicopters have been involved in hundreds of fatal accidents and incidents since the company delivered its first helicopter in 1979. According to government data*, Robinson R22, R44, and R66 models have been involved in approximately 1,762 aviation accidents or incidents globally. Of these, 436 were fatal crashes.
* Data current as of June 26, 2024. In October of 2020, NTSB changed its data search tool to the Case Analysis and Reporting Online (known as the CAROL query system).
The helicopter crash lawyers at Wisner Baum have investigated and handled 20 crash cases involving R22s, R44s or R66s, representing 34 passengers or pilots, in wrongful death or personal injury claims involving Robinson helicopters. Our advocacy for clients extends beyond the courtroom; Wisner Baum attorneys have made dozens of media appearances discussing the safety issues alleged in lawsuits.
The attorneys at Wisner Baum have extensive experience obtaining full and fair compensation on behalf of helicopter crash victims and their families. We work with some of the top aviation experts in the country to find the answers that victims and their families need and the justice they deserve. Put your case in the hands of proven litigators who know what it takes to win against any corporate opponent.
To get started with a free case evaluation, call us today at (310) 207-3233 or submit our online form to speak with a lawyer.
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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.
