A jury has ordered aircraft maker Cirrus Design Corp. and a flight training subcontractor to pay $16.4 million in damages in connection with a 2003 Minnesota plane crash that caused the wrongful deaths of two men.
Gary Prokop and his passenger, Jim Kosak, suffered a wrongful death in January 2003 when Prokop’s Cirrus aircraft crashed near Hill City, Minnesota.
A Minnesota plane crash resulted in a wrongful death settlement of over $16 million.
As wrongful death attorneys, we ask you to imagine how you would feel if someone close to you suffered a wrongful death because of negligence. The families of the two men that died in this plane crash didn’t take it lying down. They alleged in their 2005 wrongful death lawsuit that Prokop — the owner and pilot of the plane – was not adequately trained to fly the four-passenger aircraft he purchased from Cirrus.
The training, by the University of North Dakota Aerospace Foundation, was included as part of the price of the airplane. If the men had been properly trained their untimely wrongful death could have been avoided.
“The plane was marketed to Prokop as being easy to fly, and they were going to train him to proficiency to operate it,” Prokop family attorney Darrold Persson said.
The suit alleged that Prokop became disoriented and lacked proficiency in using the plane’s autopilot system, which might have averted the crash and his wrongful death. This tragedy and many more can be avoided if proper safety measures are taken to ensure defective products do not reach a loved one or you.
As wrongful death lawyers, we know that people don’t die in plane crashes every day, but people die in fatal car accidents all the time. That is why you should always be careful whenever you’re behind the wheel of any type of vehicle. You never know when a simple mistake might cause you or someone else personal injury or wrongful death.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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