By; Anthony Gair, In personal injury cases predicated upon the negligent design of a product,(product liability cases), such as almost any type of machine which is to be used by people of varying training and skill it is imperative for the plaintiff’s attorney to understand the basics of machine design.…
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Seatbelt manufacturer hit with Product Liabilty Suit
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…
Justices hear arguments in $43 million Ford liability case
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…
Anthony H. Gair is Named “New York Product Liability Litigator of the Year” for 2011
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…
NEW YORK PRODUCTS LIABILITY-DEFECTIVE PRODUCT DESIGN
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…
PRODUCTS LIABILITY
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.
PRODUCTS LIABILITY-DEPOSING THE DEFENDANT’S DESIGN ENGINEER
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…
Injury or Death from the Defective Design of a Product
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…