Product Liability
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Moore v. International Harvester
$2.7 million settlement
Settlement was reached on behalf of a 19-year-old man who was badly burned.
Flood v. Proler
Settlement for policy limit
A man's arm was amputated in an incident caused by faulty equipment at a scrap steel facility.
Wirth v. Lederle
Confidential settlement
A batch of DPT vaccine that was "hot", or stronger than it should have been, affected several children in the western U.S. Our young client had a high fever then a seizure that the doctor couldn't bring down. The boy suffered brain damage and eventually, death.
Carpenter v. North Thurston School District:
A manufacturer of soccer goals failed to provide a warning that the goal could tip if weight was applied to the top bar. The plaintiff suffered a closed head injury when the goal tipped while he was doing chinups from the top bar.
Barker & Coleman v. Teco:
A manufacturing defect in a hydraulic lift caused the lift to fail and resulted in severe injuries to P.U.D. workers.
Alward v. Lane Int’l Corp:
A manufacturer of manhole ladders had been having trouble with its crimping machine, which caused the ladders to break apart during use. The plaintiff was severely injured from the ladder he was climbing as a result of the defect.
Turner v. Ford Motor Co:
A man was severely burned in an accident when the filler neck of his gas tank broke off, causing the vehicle to catch on fire. The filler neck of the gas tank was located directly behind the driver’s side window of the vehicle. The manufacturer learned that the filler neck had a propensity to break off, and also knew that deaths had resulted from this defect. Despite this knowledge, the manufacturer failed to warn customers who had previously purchased the vehicle of the dangers the defect presented.
Brown v. Yamaha:
A fifteen year old plaintiff was rendered a spastic quadriplegic due to the manufacturer’s failure to provide a simple kill switch on a Yamaha motorcycle.
Magana v. Hyundai Motor Corp:
A defectively designed seat back on a Hyundai vehicle failed and launched the plaintiff backwards and through the rear windown.
Stanton v. Lemay:
A mother and her two children were killed when their vehicle collided with the rear end of a garbage truck. The garbage truck was defectively designed in that it did not contain an under-ride guard, which would have prevented the fatalities by allowing the plaintiff’s vehicle to absorb the effects of the crash properly.
