Katzman Lampert & Stoll
AIRPLANE ACCIDENT LAWYERS SINCE 1968
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Injury and death cases resulting from Airplane Accidents, Crashes, or Emergency Landings · This is ALL we do.
SORRY – If you need to sue an airline for ANY reason other than injury, we will not be able to help.
Injury and death cases resulting from:
· Airplane Accidents
· Aviation Crashes
· Helicopter Crashes
· Emergency Landings
· This is ALL we do
SORRY – if you need to sue an airline for reasons OTHER than injury, we will NOT be able to help.
Injured in an Airplane? Get fast, free answers to your questions. Find out if you have a case.
We’re the experts other lawyers refer their airplane injury clients to.
We’re the experts other lawyers refer their airplane injury clients to.








Why choose Katzman Lampert & Stoll?
Globally respected airplane accident lawyers with a passion for safety.
For over 50 years Katzman Lampert & Stoll has been representing victims of airplane and helicopter accidents and their families. Partners David Katzman, Bruce Lampert, and Bradley Stoll have established themselves as globally respected experts in the practice of aviation accident litigation. We take pride in compassionately serving our clients, and helping make air travel safer.
Five Reasons to Choose Katzman Lampert & Stoll
Hundreds of Millions Obtained on Behalf of Our Clients
Here are a few examples of recent verdicts and judgments from jury trials we have conducted: twelve million three hundred thirty three thousand five hundred dollars ($12,333,500.00) arising from a trial in Texas in Hanak v DynCorp, involving a crash due to faulty maintenance of a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter in Italy; fourteen million fourteen thousand five hundred and 16/100 dollars ($14,014,500.16) from a trial we conducted in Maryland, in Parsons, et al. v. Midwest Air Traffic Control Services Inc., et al. involving a midair collision; and, fifty four million dollars ($54,000,000.00) involving the crash of a Boeing 747-400 aircraft in Bagram, Afghanistan, as noted above. This is a sampling, as we have been taking cases to trial for many, many, years.
Successful Litigators
We have a long history of successful adversarial litigation with Boeing. Our cases against Boeing in particular, and specifically with regard to design problems in its 737 aircraft, include the representation of many clients reaching back to the crash of United Airlines flight 585, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on March 1, 1991, and the crash of USAir flight 427 while on approach to land at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 8, 1994. Both of those crashes involved a single-point design failure that caused a rudder reversal, leading to crashes of both 737 aircraft. In the lawsuits arising from both of those crashes, our firm was appointed by the federal courts to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, to lead the litigation.
We also represented several clients and served on the Steering Committee arising from the crash of TWA flight 800 on July 17, 1996. That case involved a design defect in the center fuel tank of a 747 aircraft, leaving it susceptible to explosion from spontaneous combustion.
More recently we have litigated with Boeing on product liability and negligence claims involving the 747-400 crash of National Airlines flight 102 at Bagram Airport, Afghanistan, on April 29, 2013. That crash involved improper loading and restraint of military cargo.
Over 5 Decades Representing the People in Aviation Law Cases
In these past fifty-one years we have handled cases ranging from design and manufacturing defects to pilot error and improper maintenance, involving most of the aircraft types, makes, and models certificated in general aviation and transport category aircraft by the Federal Aviation Administration. We have handled cases from trial through appeals up to and including the United States Supreme Court. First and foremost, we are trial lawyers.
Expertise in All Facets of Aviation Law
Our firm employs several consultants, including pilots, aerodynamic engineers, mechanical engineers and materials engineers, who we regularly retain and deploy when investigating and litigating the causes of aviation accidents. In addition, we employ economists and certified public accountants for modeling and projecting economic losses.
Trained and Experienced Pilots
Our firm was founded in 1968 and since its inception has practiced virtually exclusively in aviation law involving product liability and negligence claims causing personal injury and wrongful death. The partners in the firm are pilots. David Katzman holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate (the highest pilot certification issued by the Federal Aviation Administration), and is “type rated” and thus qualified to act as pilot-in-command and too instruct others in several transport category jet aircraft.


100% Free Consultation
There’s never a charge to talk to one of our experienced aviation attorneys. We’ll answer your questions, and help you determine if you have a case.

Compassionate Experience
Yes we’re lawyers, but we’re people too. Whether you’re calling for yourself or a loved one, we’ll take the time to understand and determine how we can help.

Maximum Recoveries
While settlements vary, the attorneys at Katzman Lampert & Stoll have recovered $100s of millions in compensation for our clients and their loved ones.

Relentless Investigators
Our engineers and pilots use in-house aviation technology to reconstruct complex aviation crashes and accidents – and find out what really happened.
You may be wondering…
Why Our Expertise Matters?
Our unmatched in-house engineering capabilities, as well as our experience litigating numerous aviation product defect cases, means we can more quickly evaluate your case, discover exactly what happened, and reduce your costs.
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