What to know about Arnold & Itkin, the Houston law firm linked to the Maine plane crash
The business jet that crashed at Bangor International Airport on Sunday evening is registered to a company at the same address as Arnold & Itkin, a personal injury firm that has won multiple billion-dollar verdicts.
Pictured is a sign outside the Arnold & Itkin law firm in Houston.
The business jet that crashed and burned at Bangor International Airport in Maine on Sunday evening is registered to a company at the same address as Arnold & Itkin, a Houston-based personal injury law firm that has won multiple billion-dollar verdicts.
Federal and local authorities in Maine had just begun processing the crash scene Wednesday as winter weather conditions have persisted in the region. All six people aboard the plane died, according to officials in Bangor, who said the jet stopped there to refuel after arriving from Houston and was en route to Paris, France.
Lakewood Church confirmed to Houston Public Media that longtime employee Shawna Collins was among the crash victims. Pilot Jacob Hosmer, who was an Arnold & Itkin employee, also died, according to The Associated Press. Houston TV station ABC13, citing multiple anonymous sources, reported that another victim was Tara Arnold, an attorney at the law firm and the wife of founding partner Kurt Arnold. Nick Mastrascusa also died in the crash, according to a GoFundMe page benefitting his family.
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Representatives of the law firm have so far declined to comment on the crash.
Among Arnold & Itkin’s most prominent cases, according to its website, was its representation of one-third of the Deepwater Horizon crew in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf. Founding partner Jason Itkin successfully sued Deepwater, Halliburton and Transocean following the fire and sinking of the rig that left 11 dead and hundreds injured while releasing 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. He also represented the family of a victim of the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy.
The firm has also won major cases against leading pharmaceutical companies. One of these cases resulted in an $8 billion punitive damage verdict against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals for marketing the drug Risperadal, a drug originally developed to treat schizophrenia in adults, for off-label use to treat symptoms of autism in children. Another case, against Bayer/Monsanto, led to a $2.25 billion verdict for a plaintiff who developed cancer due to exposure to the herbicide Roundup.
The founding partners established the firm in 2004, shortly after both graduated from the University of Texas School of Law. The two remain dedicated supporters of UT-Austin, having donated several million dollars to Longhorn athletics through their respective family foundations.
Tara Arnold was an attorney with the firm who specialized in contract and business law. Her experience involved numerous oil and gas industry transactions, including multi-billion-dollar mergers as well as offshore injury claims. She also served as a board member for the Saint Paul’s Methodist Church Foundation, according to her bio on the firm’s website.
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