North Carolina Product Liability Blog : North Carolina Product Liability Lawyer & Attorney : D. Hardison Wood : Toy Safety, Child Restraint, Car Seats

A widow of a border patrol agent has filed a lawsuit against General Motors and Continental Tire Company. Her husband was riding in is patrol vehicle when the tire fell apart. The vehicle then rolled over causing severe head trauma due to the roof crush sustained in the roll.

Agent Webb's vehicle rolled, and the roof collapsed causing massive head injuries.

As we have learned defective tire production spans across many manufacturers. And as we have often discussed the head trauma caused by roof crush and the loose roof crush standards in vehicles often leads to catastrophic injuries or death.

If you or someone you know has been affected by a product failure, please contact us at 919-677-0144.

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General Motors (GM) announced last week that they were settling a class action lawsuit involving approximately 90,000 Saturn vehicles resulting from the VTi transmissions which seem to fail prematurely.

Owners of the aforementioned vehicles will be given a percentage of their expenses, based on vehicle mileage when the transmission failed and whether the car was purchased new or used. Read the Story

GM had touted that this transmission was more efficient that others. What we have been seeing lately in our practice is with the "more efficient" cars - there appears to be a bending of the federal standards for vehicles in this attempt to become more efficient. And that seems to be leading to many products liability issues due to injuries from these vehicles. 

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