Judge awards $104K in damages from Oxford Aviation
A federal judge has entered a default judgement against Oxford Aviation, awarding $104,000 to an Ohio woman who claimed the company’s failure to properly repair the tail section of a private plane resulted in her family’s emergency landing in Colorado last May.
The Bangor Daily News reported U.S. District Judge John Woodcock entered a ruling in favor of 50-year-old Karen Skilken of Columbus, Ohio, after Oxford Aviation and its owner, James Horowitz of Casco, did not respond to the complaint. Last year, the judge had awarded $423,000 in damages to Joseph Skilken & Co., the real estate firm that owned the aircraft flown by Skilken’s husband, Steven Skilken.
The newspaper reported the judge awarded compensatory but not punitive damages in each case. It remains unclear, however, whether the couple will be able to collect damages from the company. Horowitz in November transferred the company’s assets to himself for $1 and filed for personal bankruptcy, a filing that was dismissed March 10 for Horowitz’s failure to make payments to creditors and meet other requirements of the bankruptcy trustee.
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