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Defective Products
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Defective Products Litigation, otherwise known as “product
liability,” is a highly specialized and immensely challenging
field of law in which few law firms are willing to engage,
and for good reason. Typically, the opposing parties are
large manufacturers so extremely defensive about their
products that they are willing to devote unlimited resources
to such litigation. Oftentimes, such companies will
expend huge sums in order to wear an injured party’s law firm
into submission, preventing a just result by its economic
power alone, irrespective of the relative safety of their
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Another reason that most law firm avoid product liability
litigation is that, in order to do so successfully, the lawyers
must effectively master the “engineering” aspects of a product in
order to understand, and the articulate to a jury, how a product
defect may have caused his or her client’s injury.
At the Gast Law Firm, we
tackled that problem so effectively that, in September, 1985,
General Motors Corporation entered into what, at that time, was
one of the
largest-ever settlements for a single injured
Plaintiff in Nebraska. General Motors remains insistent that
the amount of that settlement remains sealed to this day. That
case involved a defective design of the fuel filler neck of the
1966 Chevrolet Camaro, and was filed in Cleveland, Ohio, since the
vehicle was built in that State.
In order to achieve that
result, the Gast Law Firm lawyers and co-counsel were required to
study and fully master the complex engineering principles of
automotive fuel containment systems and design, and we maintain
the ability and willingness to do so again. Moreover, we have the
stamina and persistence to “gut” out litigation against the
biggest and the richest of the manufacturing corporations.
William Gast has held the
Martindale-Hubbell "AV" Rating
(the highest rating for ethical standards and legal ability) since 1988, and the firm is listed in the
Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance
Attorneys. We are top-notch lawyers with
expertise in cases involving defective products.
Please continue to explore our website for more information on our
firm, our attorneys and our clients. Our comprehensive site
features trial and case summaries, and usefully links, as well as
information on other areas of practice including brain injury,
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Call us today at 402-343-1300 and arrange for a free no-obligation
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