Michael Marsh of Akerman in Miami persuaded a Broward jury to clear his client, French airplane maker Daher-Socata and its U.S. branch Socata North America Inc. of a $15 million lawsuit brought by Cynthia McCaleb, who claimed design defects caused a crash that left her brain damaged.

Marsh teamed with New York lawyer Joseph Ortego of Nixon Peabody to prove the accident was down to pilot error, not engineering faults.