Since 1980,
Jerry Spolter, Esq. has served as a neutral in numerous aviation-related cases. He successfully blends his flying background and mediation expertise with tenacity to help parties resolve disputes. Jerry acquired his FAA private pilot's license in 1968 while attending language school at DLI in Monterey. As a Marine Officer, in 1969 he was recruited OJT as an Aerial Observer, attended ejection seat school, and logged over 600 hours in 6 months in the counter-rotating jet-prop, OV-10A (Bronco) at Marble Mountain Marine Airbase in DaNang. In 1972, Spolter acquired his commercial pilot's license and, upon being admitted to the California Bar, joined the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association. He has represented individuals involved in helicopter and aircraft-related injuries and claims related to loss of power and fuel contamination and airline pilots and crew insured by the ALPS (Airline Pilot Protective Syndicate) insurance program.
Representative Resolved Mediations
- Numerous helicopter and fixed wing wrongful death claims, including 8 figure post-trial appellate mediation
- Foreign owned/operated Airbus crash into mountain with US Citizen deaths
- Engine malfunction where a/c unit lands on a car on the freeway resulting in personal injuries
- Wrongful deaths arising from Alaska Airline crash
- 747 Wing Walker’s injuries after being hit by a Vehicle Service Road van
- Prominent public figure’s fall onto jetway with physical and psychological injuries
- Fee dispute arising from wrongful death in the Egyptian Air 990 crash
- Class action arising from misdelivery/use of jet fuel vs. avgas for private aircraft
- Multiple airline employees on a shuttle bus who sustained serious injuries
- TMJ and other injuries related to an airline’s “exploding” lavatory towel dispenser
- Airline passenger’s 3dº burns from dry ice provided for a knee injury
- Employment disputes between airline and its employees
- Flight attendant's wrongful termination and disability retaliation claim
- Poisonous sodium azide cargo punctured during depalletization causing injuries
- Indian Ocean air disaster involving DOHSA and laws of 3 nations
