Our attorneys at MDR have successfully litigated transportation related matters involving common carriers. Common Carriers are individuals, companies or public utilities that are in the business of transporting passengers for hire. These include buses, trains, airplanes, and taxicabs. Since such carriers offer their service for pay to the traveling public, they owe a higher duty of care toward their passengers than the average private citizen. Because they are paid for their services they must take extra precautions for the safe transport of their passengers or suffer the financial consequences when their failure to do so leads to a passenger injury.

Our lawyers have litigated successfully against air carriers, railroads, and mass transport agencies where failures to exercise the higher degree of care required of them resulted in client’s serious injury or fatality.

Previously, our lawyers have litigated claims against a commercial airline for a plane crash in Roselawn, Indiana that resulted in wrongful death in 1994. They have also litigated against Amtrak for the injuries to several passengers as the result of a horrific train derailment that occurred near Bourbonnais, Illinois in March 1999.  Additionally, our attorneys have been successful in claims against the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) including a claim for serious injuries sustained by a disabled passenger caused by the sudden movement of one of its buses before the passenger could be safely seated, a violation of its own internal rules.

MDR LAW, LLC FILES LAWSUIT STEMMING FROM THE AMERICAN POLISH AERO CLUB PLANE CRASH OF 1/30/09

On February 5, 2009, MDR Law, LLC filed the first wrongful death lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois on behalf of a widow and mother, whose husband and only daughter were among the six fatally injured in the Polish American Aero Club plane crash that occurred in the mountains of West Virginia, on January 30, 2009. Among those parties alleged to be responsible for the tragic plane crash are the American Polish Aero Club and Wesvin, Inc., the registered owner of the subject aircraft. 

For more information relating to this tragic event, refer to the following local coverage:
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-polish-plane-crash-02-feb02,0,2743533.story

www.suntimes.com/news/transportation/2011689,west-virginia-chicago-plane-crash-012610.article