Personal Injury

“The Miracle on I-75,” that’s how nationally renowned aviation attorney Robert A. Clifford of Chicago describes the tragedy that occurred when a Bombardier Challenger crashed Friday, February 9, 2024, on Interstate 75 in Naples, Florida. Clifford, with ties to Naples as a homeowner and Board of Trustees member of the Naples Children & Education Foundation, has had previous experience with this type of aircraft. He represented NBC sports executive Dick Ebersol and his wife actress…

Robert A. Clifford, Leading Aviation Attorney who Has Handled Crash of Bombardier Challenger Aircraft, Available to Speak A Bombardier Challenger 604 jet crashed on I-75 about 3:15 p.m. EST on February 9, 2024, killing two people. The small executive jet reportedly had five people on board including two pilots when the plane crashed into a wall and involved at least one vehicle on the highway. Robert A. Clifford, a nationally recognized aviation attorney who sits…

An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, at about 5 p.m. on Friday, January 5th, 2024, when a panel and window the size of a refrigerator blew out of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. The incident has led to a federal investigation, and a number of planes have been grounded for safety concerns. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago and…

FAA Grounds That Type of Plane as Top Aviation Attorney Robert Clifford Says FAA’s Swift Action May Signal Serious Concern About Possible Defect in the Fleet As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounds all Boeing MAX9 aircraft across the country following the emergency landing last night (Friday, Jan. 5, 2024) of one of those planes. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago and Lead Counsel in the pending civil…

Alaska Airlines has grounded the Boeing MAX9 jets after a window and a chunk of the fuselage blew out of the plane shortly after takeoff, causing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, late Friday night (January 5, 2024). Photos from the plane that was able to land safely reportedly show a large hole in the plane’s side. Oxygen masks apparently were deployed indicating that the passenger cabin had been depressurized. Minor…

Tracy A. Brammeier, partner at Clifford Law Offices, obtained a record settlement in Illinois of $4.3 million for injuries to a 61-year-old woman who was mauled by a pit bull mix. The previous record for such a case in the state was $1.3 million, according to the Jury Verdict Reporter. The female plaintiff reached out earlier this year to a Chicago area animal shelter to foster any type of breed and was given what was…

On November 17, 2023, Clifford Law Offices filed a second lawsuit against the Chicago Transportation Authority (CTA) in the crash of a commuter train that occurred on the Yellow Line the morning of Thursday, November 16. Joseph T. Murphy, partner at Clifford Law Offices, filed the case on behalf of Matt Jones, 67, an architect from Skokie, who was taken by ambulance to a local hospital following the crash that injured 37 others, some critically….

Two attorneys at Clifford Law Offices obtained a $6 million verdict on behalf of a 41-year-old south suburban woman who died as a result of opioid addiction while under the care of a pain management physician. Patrick F. Bradley and Nicholas T. Motherway, attorneys at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, obtained the verdict following an eight-day trial before Cook County Circuit Court Judge John Ehrlich at the Daley Center. There was no offer in the…

A Greyhound bus reportedly struck several trucks parked at a rest stop on the morning of July 12, 2023 in downstate Illinois, killing three people and injuring at least 14 more, some who had to be airlifted to area hospitals. The crash slashed open the side of the bus and its roof caved in when it struck the truck on an exit ramp to a rest area near Hamilton, Illinois. One of the truck drivers…