Product Liability

San Diego product liability attorneys explain types of product liability cases and Casey Gerry’s experience

Casey Gerry's San Diego product liability attorneys provide legal counsel on a broad range of products liability cases, including automotive products, consumer products, over the counter medications, including supplements,medical devices, recreational vehicles, construction equipment, children’s products and many other categories.

Casey Gerry's product liability attorneys have played a leading role in holding manufacturers responsible for unsafe products they have placed on the market. We work closely with nationally recognized safety engineers in handling litigation against automobile manufacturers who place unsafe vehicles on the roads. We have represented numerous families in serious injury and wrongful death cases arising from vehicles whose design made them unstable and likely to roll over in sudden turns. Casey Gerry has handled cases involving improperly designed seatbelts, which resulted in serious injury to occupants, or aggravated injuries to occupants in a vehicle.

In addition to automobile defect litigation, we have worked with clients in locations such as Temecula, La Quinta, Palm Springs, and Cathedral City among other locations, and handled a large range of defective product cases including

• defective tools
• faulty golf carts
• motorcycles
• automobile side panels
• treadmills
• tires
• food items
• toasters
• stairs
• buildings
• scaffolding
• lift gates
• cranes
• ladders
• safety gates
• asbestos

and numerous other manufactured products that have been defectively designed.

Not long ago, partner and senior personal injury lawyer Gayle Blatt traveled to Oregon as the product liability lawyer for a United States Marine who had used a folding knife. When he was using it in the usual fashion, the knife folded on his finger, and amputated a portion of that finger. When he consulted with us, we asked product design experts to examine the design of the knife. Consulting experts agreed that the design was defective: when the knife was used in the manner intended, the blade would close, which could result in a severe injury to the user’s hand. The defendants refused any reasonable settlement, and the case went to trial in April 2006. The jury returned a verdict of $278,000 for our deserving client.

Partners Robert Francavilla and Gayle Blatt handled the case of a young woman who went to sleep in the desert area one evening in her sleeping bag, and woke to find herself engulfed in flames. She suffered severe burns. Attorneys Blatt and Francavilla had the sleeping bag evaluated. On the basis of the testing, Casey Gerry product liability attorneys brought an action against the manufacturer. It was resolved recently in the victim’s favor, enabling this young woman to pay her medical expenses and for her rehabilitation, enabling her move to move forward in her life.

In April 2006 Robert Francavilla and Thomas Luneau settled a case after a trial that lasted five weeks. Their client was a young man who was working on a deck. While working he fell backwards and suffered serious injuries. The platform on which he was working did not have a proper protective guard. Our San Diego product liability lawyers brought an action against the manufacturer of the platform, and after five weeks of trial, the judge issued a decision awarding our client $1.6 million.

Casey Gerry plaintiffs lawyers recently resolved a product liability case after several years of litigation which involved false claims by the manufacturer of a lie detector. Casey Gerry demonstrated that the lie detector was no more effective than flipping a coin in determining whether a subject was lying. The device was used to coerce and intimidate three young boys, and to extract confessions that led to their being accused of murder, and held for months in Juvenile Hall. Their Casey Gerry attorneys showed that relying on this device violated their civil rights, and led to wrongful accusations of murder, which were extremely painful and disruptive to these innocent boys and their families.