Snell & Wilmer’s Product Liability Litigation Group achieved high rankings in 2019’s “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers®. We were ranked as a metropolitan area Tier 1 firm in Phoenix, Orange County, Colorado and Utah for product liability litigation defense. We were also ranked as a Tier 1 firm in […]
Snell & Wilmer attorneys recently defended Phenix Transportation West and its driver Ray Jackson in a trucking accident case. The trial lasted eight days and was tried in Maricopa County Superior Court. Kelly Wilkins tried the case with support from associate Amanda Sheridan, paralegals Alicia Roe and Jorge Moreno, and paralegal assistant Carly McEneaney. The […]
Snell & Wilmer attorneys Dan Rodman and Morgan Petrelli recently represented Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. in the trial of a 2006 Yamaha Rhino rollover lawsuit in the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada (Case No. A709850) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Paralegal Jorge Moreno assisted with Yamaha’s defense. Plaintiff suffered a comminuted fracture of her right […]
Snell & Wilmer attorneys Dan Rodman, Jay Schuttert and Jonathan Murphy recently represented Ford Motor Company in the trial of a 2002 Ford Explorer Sport Trac rollover lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, in downtown Los Angeles, California, case no. 2:12-cv-10994-PAAGR. Paralegal Maribel Lopez and paralegal assistant Amanda Jamil […]
Snell & Wilmer attorneys Vaughn Crawford and Craig Logsdon recently represented Ford Motor Company in a retrial of a Ford Focus rollover lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona in Tucson, Case No. 4:10-CV-00156-RCC. Associate Amanda Sheridan, and paralegals Jorge Moreno and CaSandra Green, assisted with Ford’s defense. The plaintiff, […]
Every trial attorney’s worst fear is a saboteur juror, lying in wait to poison the jury’s assumed impartiality. Think John Cusack’s character in The Runaway Jury. Voir dire is supposed to allow a trial attorney to ferret out any bias that may linger in the hearts and minds of potential jurors. What can an attorney […]
3-D printing is emerging as a highly versatile, broad-based litigation technology. Who wouldn’t want to be able to quickly and efficiently create 3-D product representations for use at trial? But the idea of modeling products for trial is not new, so why is 3-D printing a potentially revolutionary capability and what other advantages can it […]
Snell & Wilmer lawyers Dan Rodman and Alina Mooradian represented Ford Motor Company in a product liability and negligence case tried in Los Angeles, California. The lawsuit arose from a 2010 rollover accident in which the seat-belted driver of a 1998 Ford Expedition SUV suffered fatal head injuries. Plaintiff had claimed that the roof of […]
The first half of 2014 has proven to be a hotbed for large product liability verdicts. Many of the largest verdicts from January 2014 to June 2014 include significant punitive damages. Some of the largest product verdicts are as follows: 1. $23.6 billion in Cynthia Robinson v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company In July of 2014, […]
At the Arizona State Bar’s continuing legal education conference, I had the honor of being the featured speaker about lessons learned from top jury verdicts in Arizona. Here are some highlights of what we discussed. The largest 2013 Arizona verdict of $12.12 million was in a medical malpractice case brought by a patient who claimed […]