Automotive Crash Worthiness

A majority of our entire practice is devoted to products liability litigation for plaintiffs. Automotive crashworthiness cases comprise a significant part of our products liability cases.

What Do We Do As Products Liability Litigators?
We represent individuals who have been injured as a result of a dangerous or unsafe product that was designed, manufactured, sold, and/or furnished by a person or company. We assist those injured individuals in bringing their claims and being fairly compensated for their injuries.

We have handled a large number of product liability cases, ranging from claims for catastrophic injuries involving serious and permanent disabilities such as brain damage and paralysis, to claims for wrongful death. Our experience includes representing individual plaintiffs against single manufacturers and multiple parties where there are allegations of defective design, defective manufacture, and/or failure to warn.

Automotive Crashworthiness
Some injuries from automobile accidents are the result of defective automobile design. Automobile manufacturers have a duty to make their vehicles "crashworthy." All too often, however, this is not the case. Instead, manufacturers put money ahead of safety, putting the passengers at risk for injury. Through the years, we have handled cases involving the following types of vehicle defects: lack of stability, defective steering system components, defective seatbelt restraints, defective air bags, defective fuel tanks, defective roof structure components, defective brakes, and cases involving a manufacturer's failure to install rear seat lap shoulder belts.
We have successfully prosecuted automotive crashworthiness cases against both domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers, obtaining significant results for our clients in the process. The list of manufacturers includes:

• Ford
• General Motors
• Daimler-Chrysler
• Toyota
• Honda
• Suzuki
• Nissan
• Saturn
• Daihatsu
• Mitsubishi

What Sets Us Apart From Other Automotive Crashworthiness Litigators?

• We have successfully pursued automotive crashworthiness cases. As indicated above, we have successfully litigated cases against all the domestic auto manufacturers and many foreign manufacturers as well.

• When we take on a case, we are able to take it all the way through trial. This type of litigation is very expensive and the automobile manufacturers have virtually endless money to spend on litigation. It is not at all uncommon for our firm to spend $300,000 or more litigating a case on behalf of a catastrophically injured individual or individuals.

• In any catastrophic injury case involving automobiles, we normally hire four or more experts just to get the case off the ground. We retain accident reconstruction experts, biomechanical engineering experts, post collision fuel fed fire experts, and vehicle design experts including handling and stability experts, seatbelt restraint experts, airbag experts and roof structure experts. On the damages side, we retain a life care expert to help determine the costs of caring for the injured person into the future and an economist to calculate lost wages.

• We are members of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG), a nationwide group of lawyers who exchange information in automotive product liability litigation. This is of great assistance in effectively preparing and litigating cases.