Airfinance Journal recognized Pillsbury’s Global Asset Finance practice for its role in six 2018 “Deals of the Year” at the publication’s annual awards program on May 2.
HOUSTON – A Fort Bend County woman is suing Turk Hava Yollari, A.O., doing business as Turkish Airlines, after sustaining a foot injury during a flight earlier this year.
HOUSTON – A Texas court of appeals has reversed part of a lower court decision between an insurance company and an emergency and consulting services company.
HOUSTON – A passenger who slipped and fell at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport Terminal A while waiting for a flight had a ruling in her favor affirmed.
HOUSTON – An international flight between the U.S. and Turkey two years ago reportedly resulted in injuries and litigation for a female passenger, recent Harris County District Court records show.
AUSTIN – A federal judge dismissed a security company from a lawsuit and granted a motion to leave to bring in a second third-party defendant into the case.
HOUSTON – A physician is suing United Airlines after he reportedly discovered a sharp object in his inflight meal, per recent Harris County District Court records.
HOUSTON – An out of state medical student has filed a lawsuit against two airlines after a head injury he sustained before a flight two years ago supposedly impeded his career plans.
HOUSTON – Earlier this year, a video showing a former United Airlines employee pushing a Houston attorney to the ground went viral.
A lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages soon followed, alleging the incident left the 73-year old lawyer with “diminishing cognitive function.”
And now, plaintiff Ronald Tigner, a Cozen O’Connor attorney, is claiming that United, in response to his suit, is making “overreaching discovery” requests – essentially engaging in a prohibited “fishing expedition” in search of “dirt” that can be used “to try and embarrass” and “intimidate” him from pursuing his lawsuit.
HOUSTON – A state district lawsuit filed by the surviving daughter of an Arkansas woman in response to an injury the decedent sustained two years ago at George Bush Intercontinental Airport was recently elevated to the federal level.
Told by his grade school teacher that he needed to present a note from his mother to explain the previous day's absence, little Ronnie obliged – with an excuse written on lined paper in crayon in big block letters and signed “Mom.”
Needless to say, the teacher's suspicions were aroused and she proceeded to question the authenticity of the dubious document presented to her by the wily child.
Fast forward a couple of decades and we have Houston attorney Ronald Tigner, Esq., trying to get on an airplane with an illegible boarding pass and meeting resistance from skeptical airline employees.
HOUSTON – A California woman alleges that United Airlines’ refusal to provide her a wheelchair prior to a flight from Houston to Orlando resulted in an accident with her motor scooter which injured her.
