Posts tagged automobile defect

• Another Fatality Due To A Defective Seat Belt?

  IB Contributor | January 02, 2007 7:46 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Did his seat belt fail him when he needed it most?Was the victim of a fatal auto accident, who was ejected from the vehicle he was riding in, wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident? Or was he another victim of a defectively designed seat belt that failed when he needed it most? Only an investigation by a team of experts before the evidence is contaminated will be able to tell. A...

• Honda Tried To "Win By Cheating"

  IB Contributor | December 30, 2006 8:07 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Tiral Laywers For Public Justice, Wins Victory For JusticeAmerica Honda Motor Company (Honda) "deliberately" destroyed evidence in an auto defect case brought be a (then) 17 year old who became a quadriplegic due to a restraint system (seat belt) failure in her Honda Civic, according to the trial judge's sanction decision in Davis v. Honda (California Superior Court). The judge's decision found...

• 1999 - 2001 Ford Explorer, Dangerously Unsafe Roof

  IB Contributor | December 29, 2006 10:13 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Many Ford Explorer SUVs, from the 1999 to 2001 model years, do not meet a crucial safety requirement intended to protect passengers in rollover crashes according to a safety engineering firm we regular call upon as expert witnesses in our Ford and SUV rollover cases.Safety Analysis and Forensic Engineering, which has performed a great deal of research and testing for us, has formed the opinion...

• Rollover Automobile Accidents - 11 Times More Deadly

  IB Contributor | December 15, 2006 6:12 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As I look back at the clients we have represented this year and the types of cases we have pursued on their behalf, a startling statisic emerges. We pursued more rollover accident cases against automobile manufacturers than any other type of auto defect case. It was also clear that our auto defect cases that involved the rollover of a passenger vehicle, the injuries sustained were...