Falling through clouds
Subtitle: a story of survival, love, and liability
By: Damian Fowler
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781250026224
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Family; Aircraft accident victims; Law and legislation; Aircraft accidents; Fathers and daughters; Aviation insurance; Aircraft accident victims' families; Treatment; Wounds and injuries; Children; Biography; Case studies
Description: "'Mommy burned up.' On a cloudy day in August 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, 4 and 3, were flying in their uncle's plane along with their mother on their way to their grandpa's birthday party near Lake Superior, when Lily noticed the trees out the window were growing close; so close she could almost touch them. Before the trees screamed into the cabin, Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. A story of tragedy, survival, and justice, Falling Through Clouds is about a young father's fight for his family in the wake of a plane crash that killed his wife, badly injured his two daughters, and thrust him into a David-vs-Goliath legal confrontation with a multi-billion dollar insurance company. Blindsided when he was sued in federal court by this insurance company, Toby Pearson 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. Falling Through Clouds charts the dramatic journey of a man who turned a personal tragedy into an important victory for himself, his girls, and many other Americans"--
Notes: Subtitle from dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: We fell out of the sky; title: Toby and Kathryn; title: Not entirely pleased with God; title: Crash physics; title: One step at a time; title: A period of wild suspense and utter bewilderment; title: The second luckiest person of the year; title: The risk of loss; title: Falling through clouds; title: Discovery; title: This isn't going away quietly; title: Old Highway 61; title: The wrong David; title: An anomaly of history; title: Resiliency; title: Epilogue: Back to the forest.