Garrett J. Fitzpatrick, Managing Partner

Gary is the Managing Partner of Fitzpatrick & Hunt, Tucker, Collier, Pagano, Aubert, LLP and has been practicing aviation law for over 35 years, representing various aviation companies all over the world.  Gary has defended his clients in claims and litigation arising from major airline catastrophes, military crashes and general aviation accidents.

Gary was lead defense counsel for a major defendant in the litigation arising out of the Florida Everglades, ValuJet DC-9 crash in May 1996. His expertise in the aviation field played an instrumental role in creating and adopting of the Government Contractor Defense in military defense litigation. One of the cases he handled was the first to uphold this defense at the Federal Appellate Court level.

Gary also serves as the legal head of the Aircraft Builders Council Program, which is one of the longest running aviation product insurance programs anywhere in the world. In addition to handling the defense of claims and litigation of the numerous companies insured under this Program, he has been instrumental in providing a variety of claims prevention services to these companies, including aviation product liability seminars. These seminars are conducted at each company’s facilities across the United States as well as abroad. Gary has also lectured on aviation law at various legal and insurance conferences, and is the author of articles published in both legal and insurance journals and periodicals.