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Authorities in Vancouver, Canada, have joined with Oregon officials in the aftermath of the deadly bus crash that left nine people dead and dozens more injured. The tour bus crash occurred Sunday (Dec. 30, 2012) about 10 a.m. as it returned from a nine-day western tour that last stopped in Las Vegas, Nevada, before returning to Vancouver, Canada, the area where some of the passengers resided. Other passengers were exchange students from South Korea or…

News video of a tragic scene in Oregon’s ice and snow tells the story – nine people are dead and three dozen more injured following a bus crash Sunday morning off of a mountainous highway in the state’s northeast corner. Steep slopes and ice made the rescue effort even more difficult as paramedics and ambulance companies from the region tried to make their way to those in the tour bus that had rolled down the…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker is an accomplished journalist, attorney and educator but ask her of what she is most proud and she will say her three children. As a single mother, Pam has taken great pride in juggling her career with motherhood. Her three adult children are well on their way to success: Michelle is Showbiz Shelly in the morning on B96 radio in Chicago (WBBM, 96.3 FM) for the past seven years, Elise is launching…

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Robert Clifford and Kevin Durkin Obtain $112 million of record $180 million Verdict in Federal Court in St. Louis Robert A. Clifford and Kevin P. Durkin, partners at Clifford Law Offices, led the trial team that obtained a record $112 million verdict on (Friday, June 1, 2012) on behalf of two men who were burned in a grain elevator explosion in downstate Illinois owned by ConAgra Foods. Also part of the trial team was Brad…

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Douglas J. Pepe, cochairs of the Experts and Evidence Subcommittee of the Mass Torts Committee The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently approved a settlement resolving the bulk of the 9/11-related property damage and insurance subrogation claims against airlines and security companies for an aggregate settlement amount of $1.2 billion. In its opinion, the Second Circuit held that the statute governing the 9/11 litigation-the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act…

What should have been a routine Newark-to-Buffalo flight ended in tragedy as the Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 crashed into a house, killing all 49 people on board and a man on the ground as it approached Buffalo, New York, on February 12, 2009. National Transportation Safety Board hearings revealed numerous mistakes made by inexperienced, fatigued pilots and an aircraft that should have been better equipped. Clifford Law Offices represented a number of families who lost loved…

TURKISH AIRLINES FLIGHT 1951 Crashed short of runway: February 25, 2009, In Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands On February 25, 2009, Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 was en route from Istanbul, Turkey, to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 127 passengers – four of whom were U.S. citizens – and seven crew members, including three pilots. The seemingly ordinary journey was uneventful until the aircraft descended for landing on Runway 18R. At approximately 1,950…