Child Seat Defects
All airbags are not created equal. Some airbags are overpowered, some are untethered. Sometimes airbags fail to deploy and some deploy causing serious harm.
One Hogan Law Office, PC case, Tyson v. Ford resulted in a $1.75 million jury verdict in Jacksonville, Florida and established that the airbag in the Ford Windstar was defective, because it did not have a tether to prevent seatbelted passengers from being struck in the eye. Another of our cases, Griner v. Methode, also in Jacksonville, produced a $1.25 million verdict after a settlement with Daimler-Chrysler and involved an avoidable head injury where a driver airbag failed to deploy in a wreck.
Evaluating the potential child seat case
Practical pointers to determine whether to take an airbag defect case are provided in Evaluating the Potential Airbag Case, Air Bag Preemption: A Status Report, and Defective Airbags. A summary of some areas to look at are shown below:
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Use caution when deciding to take a case where a great defect exists, but causation does not. We have learned, through a great deal of wasted expense on cases that looked good on paper, that causation must be provable from a biomechanics standpoint.
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If your client has suffered injuries from a defective air bag, please call us at 205-327-5235 for a free evaluation of your case or click here to contact us online.