$2.2 Million Settlement Reached in Lexington, Kentucky Blue Grass Airport Learjet Crash Case

November 22, 2005 - Attorneys at Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. reached a settlement in excess of $2.2 million dollars today on behalf of the husband of a seventy-seven year old woman who died when the pilot of an air ambulance failed to stop the Gates Learjet 25C-XR before it overran the runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky on August 30, 2002. After landing, the thrust reversers failed to deploy and the crew claimed the main landing gear brakes and the emergency brakes were both ineffective. The airplane crashed into a localizer tower before it finally came to rest on a highway next to the airport. The woman's seventy-six year old husband survived the crash with injuries. According to David E. Rapoport, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, the case was filed in Florida because Kentucky law does not allow damages for the loss of a wife's companionship. Mr. Rapoport explained: "The time has come for the Kentucky legislature or courts to join the modern trend and allow loss of companionship damages for spouses." In this case, filing in Florida enabled the widower to recover for his loss of companionship.

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