Nolan Law Group

$165M

Aviation

Air Philippines Flight 541 slammed into a hill on Samal Island while on approach to landing in Davao, caught fire and disintegrated. 131 passengers and crew died in the accident, making it the largest loss of life from an airline crash in Philippine history. Nolan Law Group’s Aviation Litigation Department filed suit on behalf of 47 plantiffs in August of 2000. The 110 individually-filed, wrongful-death lawsuits were prosecuted in the Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois, against Chicago area companies - AAR Aircraft & Engine Group, Inc. and Fleet Business Credit Corporation. Donald J. Nolan of Nolan Law Group acted as Lead Counsel for all plaintiffs in the cases. Nolan Law Group exposed AAR’s and Fleet’s failure to equip the aircraft with an enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) and instead provided an outdated GPWS that was unsuitable for the topography of the Philippine terrain. The newer system would have given the pilots an approximate half-minute warning that they were approaching the fateful hill. The outdated system provided the pilots of Flight 541 with only a four-second warning.

$116

Aviation

Crash of a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft on takeoff from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan on April 29, 2013 that killed the entire crew. Improperly loaded and restrained cargo shifted on takeoff causing a loss of stabilizer control resulting in uncontrolled flight into terrain. All seven souls on board perished.

$14.8M

Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice where the patient who was pregnant with twins underwent a cesarean section procedure by the obstetrician that fell below the standard of care. As a result, the patient suffered massive hemorrhaging resulting in hypoxic brain injury and seizure like activity.

$12M

Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice where the obstetrician and nurse failed to perform additional tests on a pregnant mother who reported that her amniotic sac broke prior to delivery. The delay in delivery resulted in the infant suffering a severe brain disorder.

$6.5M

Brain Injury

Construction laborer pinned during trenching operation resulting in neurologic and orthopedic injuries.

$6.3M

Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice case concerning deviation from the standard of care in plaintiff’s labor and delivery resulting in the infant suffering from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. The minor plaintiff suffered a profound brain injury requiring 24-hour nursing care.