CHESAPEAKE — The Houston-based company that insures the aviation company that operates the Lawrence County Airport says no matter the outcome of an upcoming civil lawsuit its policy provides no coverage. “We believe there is no coverage,” John Farnan of Weston Hurd law firm in Cleveland, said. The law firm represents U.S. Specialty, the company that insures Attitude Aviation. The lawsuit, filed in July 2010, by Ashley Washburn, focuses on injuries Washburn received when a hangar door at the airport became detached, airborne and hit the woman.
The incident happened on July 20, 2008, as Washburn was putting away tents and other equipment that had been used that day during parachuting activities that she had participated in earlier. According to the suit “the defendants, Lawrence County Board of Commissioners and Attitude Aviation … negligently and carelessly owned, maintained, controlled, supervised and regulated Lawrence County Airport such that they permitted negligent installation, construction and replacement of the hangar on the premises which created dangerous conditions of the public property at the airport.
“The airport was in a dangerous condition that created substantial risk of serious bodily injury and death when the airport was used in a reasonable matter by the plaintiff and other patrons of the airport.” The suit alleges the commissioners and Attitude Aviation should have known of what it called dangerous conditions at the airport and should have remedied them or posted warnings about them. That suit seeks damages for pain and suffering, bodily injury, permanent injury, emotional distress, lost wages and past medical expenses and demands a jury trial.
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