Sterns & Walker, over the years, have handled a number of cases for many clients. The amount of a client's recovery, certainly by settlement, and to a large extent even from a jury trial or arbitration, are many times matters of intensively private concern to the client. Sterns & Walker are aware that there are other attorney web sites that use specific numbers with respect to results, and in many cases, refer to specific clients and clients' confidence. Therefore, we do not publish or disseminate numbers representing either settlement, judgments, verdicts or otherwise, or do we identify clients by name. We hope that all who read this site will understand why this is so, and understand that in our extensive experience, we have achieved and obtained substantial awards for many clients consistent with those which are made public by other law firms. MAJOR AIRLINE DISASTERS 1974-Lufthansa Boeing 747 crash at Nairobi, Turkish Airlines DC-10 crash at Paris; 1977-Pan Am/KLM Boeing 747s collision on runway at Tenerife; 1978-American Airlines DC-10 crash at Chicago, PSA Boeing 727 crash over San Diego; 1983-Korean Airlines flight 007 Boeing 747 shot down over Sea of Japan; 1987-PSA BAE-146 crash near San Luis Obispo; 1988-Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 structural failure - Hawaii, Pan Am Boeing 747 explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland; 1989-United Airlines DC-10 crash at Sioux City, Iowa, United Airlines Boeing 747 explosion over Honolulu; 1991-USAir/Skywest Boeing 737 runway collision at Los Angeles International Airport, Lauda Air Boeing 767ER crash near Bangkok, Thailand, United Airlines Boeing 737 at Colorado Springs - rudder malfunction.; 1992-TWA Lockheed L-1011 crash at JFK Airport, USAir Fokker F-28 off the runway at La Guardia Airport; 1993-El Al Boeing 747 crash into apartment building in Amsterdam; 1994-USAir Boeing 737 crash near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 1995-Nigeria Air crash at Kaduna, American Airlines Boeing 757 at Cali, Colombia; 1996-Birgen Air Boeing 757 crash, Dominican Republic, T-43 US Air Force at Dubrovnik, Bosnia - "Ron Brown" Crash, TWA 800 Boeing 747 Long Island, New York, Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 Comoros Islands Hijacking; 1997-Korean Airlines 801 at Guam, Silk Air Boeing 737 Indonesia; 1998- Swissair MD-111 at Peggy's Cove, Halifax Nova Scotia; 1999-EgyptAir 990, Atlantic Ocean off Rhode Island; 2000-Singapore Air at Taiwan; Air Philippines Boeing 737 crash at Mindinao Island, Phillippines; 2001-AVjet at Aspen, Colorado; Marsh Harbor, Bahamas;  AA-587 at New York; Linate SAS Cessna Runway Collision, Milan, Italy; 2002-Bristow Helicopters, North Sea Sikorsky S76, North Sea, off Coast of England; 2003-Sikorsky S61 Cargo Helicopter crash, Northern California; 2004-Flash Air Boeing 737, Red Sea, Egypt; Robinson R22 Helicopter crashes, Israel and New Zealand; 2005-Helios Boeing 737, pressurization on flight, Nicocia, Athens; Baltic Sea Copterline S76 Sikorsky Helicopter crash; Metroliner commercial air crashes, Australia and New Zealand; Cessna Caravan, Moscow, Russia. GENERAL AVIATION AIRFRAME; Beech Aircraft, Bell Helicopter, Boeing Vertrol, Cessna, Convair, Enstrom Helicopter, Piper, Fokker, Lear-Jet, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, Mooney, Robinson Helicopter, Sikorsky, ultra-light aircraft and various blimps and balloons. COMPONENT; Allied Signal, Avco Lycoming, General Dynamics, General Electric, Continental/Teledyne, Pratt and Whitney, Sunstrand, Jeppeson and Lear-Singler. SERVICES; FAA: air traffic control and Weather advisory, private contract Air Traffic Control. CREW CASES The firm has handled a number of cases for flight crew, but unfortunately are usually the target of the first round of investigation in most crashes.  However, diligent work has shown in many cases shown that there was an airframe or component problem that compromised the crew's ability to handle the matter.  A list of the cases are:  Flying Tiger, San Francisco 1967; Lufthansa at Nairobi Boeing 747 1974; Lusaka Zambia, Dan Air 1983;  Lauda Air, Thailand 1991; Egypt Air 990, Atlantic Ocean off Rhode Island 1999; American Airlines, Cali, Columbia 1999; Avjet at Aspen, Colorado 2001; Alaska Air, Point Magu, California 2002.  PRODUCT LIABILITY Agent Orange, aircraft hangars, aircraft and components, asbestos, automobile restraint systems, birth control pills, commercial and residential fires, construction heavy equipment, Dalkon Shield birth control devices, deep sea diving bells, DPT vaccine, elevators, rolling objects/rollover protection, garbage trucks, Gulf War Syndrome, nail guns, office chairs, oil rigging equipment, oil tankers, propane tanks, room heaters, Selacrin diuretic drug, silicone breast implants, ski lifts, water ski boats, and others. GENERAL TORT LIABILITY Automobile accidents, dangerous design, construction and maintenance of roadways, asbestos exposure, medical and other professional negligence, dangerous conditions on public and private property, dangerous products, negligent tour operation, dangerous animals (dogs, horses, eels, etc.), fire, crashworthiness, construction accidents, mud slides, sky diving, underwater diving, wire strikes, Malathion and crop dusting.  Recreational injuries of all kinds, including parasailing, whitewater, dude string horse operations. EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION The Firm has also assisted individuals with employment cases, including Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination and Employment Discrimination. MILITARY HARDWARE Cases involving claims by servicemen and their families against suppliers of product to the U.S. Government for military use.  Claimed defects always involve defense asserted of "military contractor," which, if established, provides immunity to contractor.  Examples:  guidance systems; escape matches and seats; defective cockpit support; engine problems.