Products Liability

Maritime Law. Five-year-old Yamaha Waverunner explodes from built-up gasoline vapors. Battle of experts ensues at trial. 

Plaintiff was exposed to asbestos while working for the City of Newport Beach, where he was in close proximity to workers cutting asbestos cement pipe in the 1980s.

Apprentice is injured on job site, says defective tool was to blame.

Truck driver survives initial crash but is burned to death when fuel tanks explode.

Teenager falls on trampoline and his knee lands on a bolt. Negligence, products liability, premises liability.

Couple uses Roundup weed killer on their properties. This trial culminated in the third consecutive jury verdict against Monsanto in the Roundup cancer litigation.

Non-economic damages for burn victim are contested.

Laborer crashes his car on employer's lot; claims car accelerated when he was braking. Flaw in design of accelerator and brake pedals is blamed.

Battle of expert witnesses over whether Monsanto's products cause cancer and what the company knew but did not warn of.

Strict-products-liability claim against corporate apartment company for the television they supplied in unit when it catches fire and occupant dies.

Employee dies after being pulled into rock crushing machine when guards are removed.

Father brings asbestos fibers home from workplace on his clothing. Son dies as an adult.

Wheelchair user claims he is injured by bolts on wheelchair after modifications are made on it.

Family members killed when their car skids on fluid in roadway; fluid leak blamed on motor home found disabled nearby.  Plaintiffs claim defective design and  manufacture of motor home.