Representative Cases

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 (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 (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 (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).