PRACTICE AREAS

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  • Tractor Trailer and Commercial Vehicle Litigation
    - Collisions Caused by Truck Driver Error
    - Defective Equipment
    - Negligent Driver Selection, Retention and Hiring
    - Truck Driver Fatigue
    - Truck Driver Impaired by Drugs and Alcohol
    - Lack of Conspicuity (Lighting and Reflectors on Big-Rigs)
    - Improper Loading/Failure to Secure Load
    - Negligent Supervision of Safety Programs by Insurer
    - Dump Truck Cases
  • Automobile Collisions
    - Drunk Driving - Impaired by Drugs
    - Ordinary Negligence
    - Agency Issues
    - Employees or Agents Performing Task for Principal
  • Premises Liability
    - Failure to Provide Adequate Security
    - Defective Parking Lots
  • Product Liability
    - Defective Eyeglasses
    - Defective Lift Gate Assembly
    - Failure to Have Safety Guards on Agricultural Equipment
    - Aerial Lift (Cherry Picker Failure)
    - Defective Infant Apnea Monitor
    - Defective Electrical Transmission Shift Unit
  • Road Design Liability
    - Negligent Road Maintenance and Construction
    - Improper Signage
    - Maintenance of Nuisance
    - Improper Drainage/Hydroplaning
    - Negligent Highway Design - Inadequate Site Distance
  • Business Torts and Corporate Litigation
    - Identity Fraud
    - Piercing the Corporate Veil/Disregarding Separateness of Related Corporate Entity

    - Voluntary Assumption of Legal Duty
    - Agency Issues
    - Liability of Parent and Sister Corporations for Torts of Related Company
    - Liability of Joint Venturers
  • Student/Participant Sports Negligence Cases
    - Drag Racing Injury
    - Fraternity Hazing - Death and Injury
    - Sexual Assault of Boarding Student
    - Failure to Provide Adequate Security Program
  • Governmental Liability/Improper Police Pursuit
    - Violation of Department Chase Policy
    - Excessive Speed
    - Inadequate Use of Police Vehicle Lights and Sirens