Representative Cases

Lakeman v. PPG Industries, Inc.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division, Case No. 188-cv-716-C ($2.5 million jury verdict for the wrongful death of an elevator serviceman who died of asphyxiation after using a cleaning solvent that contained a lethal chemical. Defendant appealed verdict to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Appeals Court affirmed judgment in favor of plaintiff).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of young man killed when ejected from 15-passenger Ford van upon left rear tire's tread separation of Firestone Steeltex tire).

Jones v. Ergon Oil
(settlement of product liability/tanker truck rollover case settled prior to suit being filed).

McMillan v. Massey Ferguson
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-82-0686 ($10.5 million jury verdict for wrongful death against manufacturer of corn header).

Richards v. Budd Co., et al
U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division, Case No. CV-88-1022-P (pro tanto settlements and verdict for brain damaged victim of tire rim mismatch explosion).

Mosley v. Massey Ferguson
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-88-1654 (wrongful death settlement against manufacturer of corn header).

Shepherd v. McGraw Edison, et al.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division, Case No. CV-89-0964-B-H (settlement for victim of electrocution injuries caused by malfunctioning electrical reclosers).

Gillam v. FMC Corp.
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-90-2723 (jury verdict against tractor manufacturer for failure to include ROPS (rollover protective structure)).

Bowman v. Hobart Corp.
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-811 (personal injury verdict in product liability case involving commercial slant meat saw).

Piephoff v. Nutri-System
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-1619 (settlement in product liability case involving diet program which caused the loss of gall bladder/pancreatitis).

Gauthreaux v. Rheem Manufacturing. Co.
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-002148 (settlement in product liability case involving gas fired hot water heater and ignition of flammable vapors).

Hannah v. Square D
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-3842 (settlement of electrocution case involving electrical switch panel).

Randy Jones v. Klein Tools
Washington County, Alabama Case No. CV-92-92-P (product liability, industrial injury (paraplegia) claim due to "rollout" of fall protection hook).

Scott v. Rheem Manufacturing Co.
Baldwin County, Alabama Court Case No. CV-92-854 ($15 million personal injury verdict against gas-fired hot water heater manufacturer in product liability case).

Graham v. Nissan
Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-92-3143 (settlement in automobile product liability case where man was paralyzed after being thrown from automobile in an accident).

Williams v. Talley
Jefferson County, Alabama Case No. CV-92-4100 (product liability/co-employee case involving fall at construction site resulting in paralysis).

Whiddon v. Southeast Alabama Medical Center
Houston County, Alabama Case No. CV-95-574 (settlement in product liability case where patient died after being put on faulty ventilator after open heart surgery).

Odom v. Memphis Folding Stairs
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-93-2267-DIJ (settlement in product liability case involving folding stairwell).

Kopczick v. Hobart Corp.
Grundy County, Illinois Case No. 94 L 30 ($20.5 million personal injury verdict in product liability case involving commercial slant meat saw).

Kimble v. Balemaster
U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Southern Division, Case No. CV-94-0034-AH-S (product liability/industrial accident involving nip point/loss of fingers in paper baling machine).

Yonts v. Yamaha
Fredericksburg, Virginia Circuit Court Case No. C195-355 (product liability claim settled for paraplegic alleging negligent design of all-terrain vehicle).

Cobb v. Alabama River Pulp, et al.
Monroe County, Alabama Case No. CV-96-66 (settlement in wrongful death/product liability case concerning fall from a man lift).

Witherspoon v. Mack Trucks, Inc.
Clarke County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-172-C (verdict in product liability case wherein truck driver burned to death in a post-accident/rollover fire).

Deyton v. Brister's Thunder Karts, Inc., et al.
Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-699 (settlement in product liability/wrongful death case involving go-cart).

Booker V. Timberjack Corp.
Clarke County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-2001-0030 (settlement for family of workman crushed by hydraulic hood of Timberjack Knuckleboom Log Loader).

Anonymous v. Acme Propane Gas Co., Inc.
Crenshaw County, Alabama Circuit Court Case No. CV-2000-89 (Confidential settlement for family involved in home propane explosion where evidence indicated that the gas company's safety policies and procedures were not implemented).

Ebanks v. The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, et al.
Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Case No. CV-2000-2151 (Confidential settlement for paraplegic as a result of an accident caused by a tire tread separation on an LT 235 85 R16 Load Range E.)

O'Brien v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., et al.
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-2001-2973 (confidential settlement in case involving a Firestone Wilderness AT tire/Ford Explorer rollover which resulted in permanent disabling injuries to the plaintiff).

Crosby v. Whirlpool Corp., et al.
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-00-003081 (confidential settlements in wrongful death and personal injury cases, wherein a Whirlpool clothes dryer caught fire destroying a daycare center resulting in the deaths of three children and severe brain injury of another).

Daniel v. Pandora Manufacturing, Inc., et al.
Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-98-1113 (confidential settlement in wrongful death case of plaintiff who died when a tire, which had been recently repaired with Fix-A-Flat labeled as a "Non-Explosive Formula," exploded while the decedent was welding on the tire rim).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Washington County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of 78-year-old woman who died as a consequence of a defectively designed and manufactured seat back in a 1991 passenger vehicle).