Clifford Law Offices Hired to Represent Woods Family in Southwest Airlines Crash at Midway Airport; Firm Begins Own Investigation
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Nationally
renowned personal injury attorney Robert A. Clifford and Clifford Law
Offices have been hired by the family of six-year-old Joshua Woods in
his death when a Southwest Airlines plane slid off a runway at Midway
Airport last month and killed him in his family’s car.
Together
with family attorney Ronald Stearney, Clifford is dispatching former
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) experts and investigators
to examine the cause of the tragic Dec. 8 incident and determine the
appropriate responsible parties.
“The Woods
family has suffered a loss from which they will never recover,”
Clifford said upon his hiring. “They are entitled to find out all of
the details and all of the decisions that transpired leading to an
event that never should have happened.”
Clifford
has represented families of victims of air disasters in nearly every
commercial air crash in the last 25 years in this country. He and his
firm have been involved in many other major transportation accidents
including representing violinist Rachel Barton who received a $30
million verdict against Metra as well as receiving the largest verdict
in the country last year involving a truck collision, $38.3 million.
Clifford
said a lawsuit is expected to be filed when his firm and team of
experts determine all appropriate defendants who are responsible for
Joshua’s death and the injuries of his family members.
