Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases
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    5/5/2008
    James R. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
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    Ford pays $6.5M for SUV defect blamed for driver's death

    A jury awarded $6.5 million to the family of a man who was killed when his 1998 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle flipped on an upstate parkway. The jury found that a defective roof-support system allowed the vehicle's roof to shred during the accident. The driver, Steven Motelson, 60 at the time of the July 2000 crash, sustained fatal injuries of his head as a result of the roof's failure. However, the jury rejected allegations that the vehicle's seat belts and speed-control systems failed, and, as such, it declined to hold Ford Motor Co. liable for the death of a juvenile passenger of the vehicle.

    Motelson v. Ford Motor Co.
     
    See the fulll report from VerdictSearch.com here.

    Labels: wrongful death, automobile accident, product safety


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