After a Fatal Plane Crash, a David-vs-Goliath Legal Battle

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 8, 2014

In the wake of a plane crash that killed his wife and badly injured his two daughters, Toby Pearson was thrust into a David-vs-Goliath legal confrontation with a multi-billion dollar insurance company. Damian Fowler tells how Pearson was blindsided when he was sued in federal court by the insurance company, and then made it his mission to change aviation insurance law in his home state and nationally, while nursing his daughters to recovery and recreating his own life. Fowler tells the story in his book Falling Through Clouds: A Story of Survival, Love, and Liability.

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