Seatbelt manufacturer sued The family of a deceased woman has filed suit against a seatbelt manufacturer in Texas federal court. The suit alleges her seatbelt failed to meet safety standards required at the state and federal level and by the manufacturer’s own internal requirements. Sandra Dozier was driving a 1998…
Ford pleaded with the Illinois Supreme Court Justices last week in hope that they’d overturn the $43 million Madison County verdict awarded to Dora Mae Jablonski in 2005, as reported in The Madison Record. Jablonski’s husband, John Jablonski, died after the fuel tank in their 1993 Lincoln Town Car exploded…
We are pleased to announce that our own Tony Gair has also been named to this years Best Lawyers as the “New York Best Lawyers Product Liability Litigator of the Year” for 2011. This is in recognition of Mr. Gair’s long history of helping people injured by the negligence and…
By Howard S. Hershenhorn and Anthony H. Gair. In products liability cases involving allegedly defective machines such as printing presses, plastic molding machinery, power saws, power presses and innumerable others, the defense will invariably argue that it was the plaintiff’s culpable conduct which caused the accident and resulting injury. In…
Robert Conason will be participating in The Brooklyn Law School symposium, “The Products Liability Restatement: Was it a Success?,” scheduled for November 13th and 14th, 2008. Bob will be on the panel discussing The Restatement and Design Defect §2(b) on November 13th.
In product liability cases involving allegedly defective machines such as printing presses, plastic molding machinery, power saws, power presses and innumerable others, the defense will invariably argue that it was the plaintiff’s culpable conduct which caused the accident and resulting injury. In other words, the defendant will argue that it…
In an injury or death resulting from the defective design of a product, the claim is that the product functioned as it was designed but the design was negligent. That is a reasonable manufacturer should have known that the design of the product was defective, that it was foreseeable that…