Timothy Loranger

Timothy A. Loranger is a senior partner in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. He leads the firm’s work on transportation product liability, aviation and commercial ground transportation crashes and military accidents that cause catastrophic injury or death, including truck, bus, helicopter and train cases.

Loranger was one of seven lawyers on the Plaintiffs’ Management Committee in the litigation over the 2015 derailment of Amtrak Train 188 in Philadelphia, which resolved in 2016 with a $265 million settlement for victims. His published appellate work includes Jones v. Goodrich Pump & Engine Control Systems, in which the Second Circuit held in 2023 that the Federal Aviation Act did not preempt state tort claims arising from public aircraft crashes. He has written for TRIAL magazine, the Journal of Air Law & Commerce and the ADVOCATE journal.

Before law school, Loranger served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1988 to 1992 as an aircraft hydraulic mechanic and is a veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He holds a private pilot license, earned a biology degree from California State University, Northridge, in 1999 and graduated from Southwestern University School of Law in 2002. He served on the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Board of Governors from 2014 to 2025, is a past chair of the American Association for Justice Aviation Law Section and was named Best Lawyers’ 2020 Lawyer of the Year for plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation in Los Angeles.