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When a manufacturer knows or should have known that their product is unreasonably dangerous, a consumer who was injured by such a product may have a products liability case. We have worked with many clients to seek not only monetary recoveries for their injuries, but also to keep others from being injured by the same product.

Corporations need to be held accountable for their actions. Products liability lawsuits help to do that by enforcing current laws and standards and periodically motivating change to better protect consumers. The products liability lawsuit can also act as a deterrent to manufacturers who are careless, thoughtless, and negligent in producing unreasonably dangerous products.

Products Liability Cases:

• Client suffered severe injuries after Toyota Tundra pick-up truck lost control as result of not having electronic stability control or adequate impact protection. (2011)
• Client suffered severe brain injury as result of defective pneumatic nailer which accidentally discharged 3-inch nail into his skull. (2011)
• Passenger in sleeper compartment of 18-wheeler truck suffered broken neck and quadriplegia during rollover as result of inadequate defectively designed restraints. (2011)
• Medical products case. (2010)
• Client was pregnant, and unborn baby suffered brain damage from injuries caused by seat belt in front end collision. (2009)
• Amputation of both arms by hay baler (2001)
• Products liability/oil field equipment (1998)
• Products liability/death of 12-year-old girl in exercise lap pool (1992)
• Product defect in child car seat/quadriplegic child (1992)

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Products Liability/Premises Liability

• Dallas Cowboys assistant scout was paralyzed from the waist down when spinal cord snapped as the result of a tension fabric building collapse. (2010)
• Dallas Cowboys coach suffered a fractured vertebrae which required the surgical installation of rods in his neck. The injuries were caused by a tension fabric building collapse. (2010)
• Residential elevator malfunction/wrongful death of 6 year-old boy (2001)

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Products Liability/Transportation Injury

• Family riding in 2001 Mitsubishi Montero when right rear tire delaminated and driver lost control, entered center median and rolled. Right rear passenger was ejected and suffered fatal injuries; driver and left rear passenger suffered various injuries. (2009)
• Clients died when bus caught fire as they were being evacuated from Houston to Dallas during Hurricane Rita. (2007)
• Automobile design/SUV rollover/death (1997)

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Products Liability/Auto Manufacture and Design

• Ford F-250 pickup rollover with roof crush, causing paralysis to client. (2009)
• Client was pregnant, and unborn baby suffered brain damage from injuries caused by seat belt design in front end collision. (2009)
• Family riding in 2001 Mitsubishi Montero when right rear tire delaminated and driver lost control, entered center median and rolled. Right rear passenger was ejected and suffered fatal injuries; driver and left rear passenger suffered various injuries. (2009)
• 17 year old belted right front passenger in 1997 Honda Prelude became quadriplegic in accident when driver lost control on a curve, vehicle rolled over and roof crushed. (2009)
• Pharmaceutical recall of Vioxx. Clients suffered heart attacks and/or strokes. 12 cases. (2008)
• Client fell asleep, left roadway, woke up, overcorrected, lost control and rolled over. 3 deaths, 3 injuries. (2008)
• Rollover in 2002 GMC Envoy when driver swerved to avoid animal in roadway, resulting in quadriplegia and ultimately death almost 2 years later. (2008)
• Mitsubishi rollover case. (2007)
• Client suffered fatal head injuries when 2005 Nissan Titan pickup truck suddenly accelerated and hit telephone pole. Truck lacked electronic stability control and adequate side impact protection. (2007)
• Top college soccer career cut short as result of injuries in rollover accident involving Mitsubishi Sport Montero. (According to Mitsubishi, this was the first Mitsubishi Sport Montero to ever be found defective by a jury). Tried in Federal Court in Greenville, South Carolina. Case affirmed by the 4th Circuit Court. (2006)
• Rollover as result of defectively designed, unstable vehicle resulting in severe injuries to world-class soccer player (2006)
• Productsliability/electrical fire in parked 18-wheel truck (2005)

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Products Liability/Drug Manufacture and Distribution

• Products liability case involving drug and disability (2003)
• Products liability case involving drug and brain damage (2003)

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Products Liability/General Negligence

• Dallas Cowboys assistant scout was paralyzed from the waist down when spinal cord snapped as the result of a tension fabric building collapse. (2010)
• Dallas Cowboys coach suffered a fractured vertebrae which required the surgical installation of rods in his neck. The injuries were caused by a tension fabric building collapse. (2010)
• Craftsman electric saw came apart in store, hit client in eye, resulting in blindness in one eye. (2007)
• Injury caused by swimming pool equipment.(2007)
• Wrongful death from defective product/failure to have lock mechanism on plastic roll machine (1991)