Holding Automakers Liable for Ignoring Modern Safety Technology

Automakers can and should be held liable for ignoring modern safety tech Automakers have a duty to keep up with industry safety trends. But sometimes they choose not to do so, and instead elect to go with cheap, but much... Read more

Expert rule change would gut right to jury trial

Product liability and mass tort cases are well-known to be “battles of the experts.” Each side puts forward their best and brightest experts, and the jury makes the call. That’s how the American civil justice system works. For now. But... Read more

Millions of Recalled Takata Airbags are Still on the Road

Takata started using ammonium nitrate, a cheap but highly volatile chemical, to inflate its airbags in the late 1990s. Just a few years later some of those airbags began shooting metal shrapnel at people—and causing serious injuries and deaths. The... Read more

Truck Accident Lawyer Orlando

Truck Accident Lawyer Orlando Semi-trucks and other large commercial vehicles are dangerous for an obvious reason: they are huge and heavy. Because of their immense size, these vehicles can cause horrific crashes that leave people maimed and paralyzed—if they survive... Read more

Takata Airbag Update: More Recalls on the Horizon?

Takata airbags have been linked to injuries and deaths dating back to the early 2000s. But the life-threatening defect was kept out of the national spotlight for years, as incidents were settled out of court. As a result, the defect... Read more

Dangers of Defective Consumer Goods

Consumer products like tools and appliances are so ubiquitous that when even a small percentage of them fail, they can hurt huge numbers of people. Products liability claims provide a valuable means to hold the companies which design, manufacture, and... Read more

Exploding E-Cigarette Litigation

E-cigarettes continue to pose a severe hazard to consumers, with more than 2,000 burn and explosion injuries occurring between 2015-2017 alone. And those numbers are definitely lower than the actual occurrences: there is no centralized database for reporting e-cigarette explosions,... Read more

Rock ‘N Play Recall Highlights Systematic Flaws in U.S. Product Safety Oversight

This April, Fisher Price announced it was recalling all 4.7 million Rock ‘n Play baby sleepers it had put onto the U.S. marketplace since 2009.[1] The announcement followed the submission of 258 incident reports to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety... Read more

Reported Intel Chip Flaw and Slowdown

Understanding Your Legal Rights and Remedies William C. Ourand, Esq. 2018 began with a bombshell report that instantly ignited a firestorm throughout the tech community. According to The Register,[1] all Intel chips from the past decade may have critical security... Read more

Asleep at the Wheel: How Trial Lawyers’ Heads are Buried in the Ground with Respect to Self-Driving Cars and Transportation Network Companies

By Richard Newsome, Esq. & William C. Ourand, Esq. Self-driving cars and transportation network companies will soon converge and bring about a paradigm shift of tectonic plate proportions for the auto industry, auto insurance industry, and lawyers who handle auto crash... Read more

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