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Gary Robb and his team at Robb & Robb won a $116 million verdict for their clients, whose son drowned when a tour helicopter crashed and overturned in the East River in 2018.
September 27, 2024 at 07:25 AM
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Gary Robb and his team at Robb & Robb are first up this week. After a three-month trial in Manhattan Supreme Court, jurors last week handed down a $116 million verdict for their clients, Jerry Cadigan and Nancy Caton Cadigan, whose son Trevor Cadigan drowned when a tour helicopter crashed and overturned in the East River in 2018. Jurors found the tour operators—FlyNYON and Liberty Helicopters—38% and 42% at fault respectively, and the maker of the helicopter's emergency flotation system, DART, 20% at fault. Jurors, however, denied Cadigan's design defunct claim against the helicopter maker, Airbus, finding the company 0% at fault. A Robb & Robb team won Litigator of the Week in January after securing a $100 million settlement for the family of a man killed in a Grand Canyon helicopter crash.
A team from Covington & Burling secured a preliminary injunction last week for casino game developer client Aristocrat Technologies in trade secrets litigation against rival Light & Wonder. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas found that Aristocrat was likely to succeed on its claim that L&W's Dragon Train game was developed using game math acquired by hiring a former Aristocrat employee. The ruling requires L&W to remove its game from casino floors and online gaming sites. Aristocrat's team includes Covington's Peter Swanson, Gary Rubman, Kanu Song, Alex Trzeciak, Simeon Botwinick and Jesse Chang, as well as Jason Smith and Nick Santoro of Holley Driggs.
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