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Modified Golf Cart Lawsuits and Regulation
Over the last ten years I’ve seen this scenario several times: client is driving or a passenger in a golf cart. The golf cart has been modified – the area in the back that was originally designed for...
View ArticleDealers Brag About Anti-Safety Tire Ageing Bill, Say It’s “a big f******* deal!”
Just saw this gem recently: in a newsletter, the California Tire Dealers Association apparently boasted about supporting a State Bill that will help keep dangerous old tires on the road, and how the...
View ArticleEvent Data Recorders: Problems With Ownership, Privacy and Evidence
More than 90 percent of the U.S. vehicle fleet is now equipped with Event Data Recorders (EDRs). Initially adopted to measure airbag deployments, EDRs can record everything from the Delta V (change in...
View ArticleAn Unexpected Break from Precedent: Strict Liability In Florida
For those of us who litigate and try cases, we’ve learned the hard way that we have to expect change. Change happens in dozens of ways every year that affects our cases and clients: changes to federal...
View ArticleOrphan Torts: 8 Causes of Action To Watch
A few weeks ago I had lunch with Lauri Goldstein, a friend in South Florida who has a successful auto PI practice. She asked, “So what new product issues should we be looking for?” She knows to watch...
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Vehicle Submersion and Escapeworthiness
A surprisingly large number of vehicles leave the road every year for various reasons and end up in a river, lake or pond. In those situations it becomes imperative for occupants to get out of the...
View ArticleCool New iPad Trial App From P.J. Scheiner
Last week the Florida Justice Association hosted a great dinner for the South West Florida Trial Lawyers group. Have to admit I’m a little jealous; it’s a close knit bar of great lawyers in a gorgeous...
View ArticleGoodyear Lawyers Popped With Sanctions: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Goodyear was just hit with a landmark 67 page order granting severe sanctions for discovery violations in the case of Haeger v. Goodyear, a G159 tire tread separation case. The Order, from Federal...
View ArticleOn Losing: Trials and Track Meets
Last Saturday we spent all day at the annual middle school championship track meet. Grant, my sixth grader, was competing in three events. Last year having set the sixth grade school record (as a fifth...
View ArticleMore Hurdles for Consumers: Proposed Fed Rules Will Limit Discovery
From the perspective of a consumer looking to file a case against a corporation, there’s huge difference in the way a case will be handled in state court versus federal court. Federal court is much...
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