Clients of Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Aviation group include companies in the general aviation, commercial and aviation insurance industries throughout the United States. We work to resolve disputes and implement risk management strategies for manufacturers, aircraft owners, operators, and management companies, including asserting claims for wrongful death, personal injury, equipment and property damage, and environmental matters from nuisance to contamination issues. Bullivant attorneys have extensive experience advising aviation insurers on their coverage obligations and representing them in litigation regarding coverage claims. We have also advised purchasers on aircraft fractional ownership interests and those entering leaseback arrangements on insurance coverage matters.

Bullivant attorneys have successfully represented aircraft owners and operators in a wide variety of litigation matters. These include personal injury claims from a wheels-up commuter airliner landing, wrongful death suits arising from the crash of fire-fighting aircraft, the loss of a helicopter due to improper main rotor blade repair techniques, and an action by persons on the ground fraudulently claiming injury from crash debris. We have defended repair stations against claims of improper repair techniques, the use of defective parts, and the failure to detect a dangerous condition in an aircraft. Our attorneys have also defended a flight school against a claim of negligent entrustment, an aircraft owner against a claim of negligent piloting, and a jump school in a tandem skydiving death case.

Our attorneys' experience includes advising aviation insurers on their coverage obligations where the pilot warranty has been breached, and representing insurers in actions arising from disputes over the payment of fees to independent counsel, as well as from denials of coverage. We have also assisted in having an insurer's Certificate of Authority amended by a regulatory agency to permit the insurer to write aviation coverage.