A wrongful-death lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by the families of three of the 15 passengers killed in the crash of a Gulfstream III attempting to land at Aspen, Colo., on March 29, 2001, was settled last month, completing litigation surrounding this accident. All the other cases brought by the families of the other victims had been settled, according to the defendants’ attorney.
Defendants Avjet–the Burbank, Calif. air-charter company that operated the GIII (and admitted liability)–and the heirs of Robert Frisbie, who worked for Avjet, piloted the jet and also died in the crash, agreed to pay $11.7 million to the plaintiffs (to be paid by the defendants’ insurer, AIG). A jury had already awarded the families $10.2 million in the compensatory damage phase of the one-week trial held in Los Angeles Superior Court last month. The settlement was reached just before the start of the punitive damage phase of the trial.
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