Crashworthiness Litigation, 2d (AAJ Press)

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Crashworthiness Litigation from AAJ Press will help you identify and prosecute valid, winnable crashworthiness claims and obtain maximum damages. It provides an introduction to the subject and thorough legal commentary, covering such topics as pretrial discovery and specific evidentiary issues. This book provides guidance through each stage of prosecuting your case and includes useful tips, practice pointers, and tactics.

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Part I. Introduction and Legal Commentary
Chapter
1. Legal Issues
2. The Lawyer's Role
3. Ethics for Trial Lawyers
4. Judicial Activism: Finding Federal Preemption, Right or Wrong?
5. Catastrophically Injured Victims
Part II. Pre-Trial Discovery and Preparation
1. Protective Orders
2. Why Protective Orders Are Inherently Unfair
3. Document Production by Compilation in a Reading Room and Electronic Discovery
4. Accident Reconstruction
Part III. Substantive Crashworthy Topic
1. The Analysis and Presentation of a Restraint System Case
2. Seat Belts: Defective Design Used as the Automobile Industry's Defense to Poorly-Designed Vehicles
3. Automobile Crashes Involving Children and the Restraint Systems Utilized
4. The Risks and Benefits of Air Bag Systems
5. Frontal Collisions: Safety Issues
6. Side Impact Accidents
7. Seat Back Strength: Protecting Occupants in Rear Impacts
8. Rollover Accidents: Why Motor Vehicles Rollover and Why Motorists Suffer Catastrophic Injury in a Rollover
9. Engineering Principles in Vehicle Rollover Litigation
10. The Anatomy of a Roof Crush Case
11. Post-Crash Fuel-Fed Fires
12. Warnings: Why Wasn't I Told?
Part IV. Specific Evidentiary Issues
1. Expert Testimony: The Effect of the Daubert Progeny
2. The Relevancy of the Design, Manufacture, and Testing of Other Vehicle Models and Other Accidents
3. The Non-Relevancy of Statistics in a Products Liability Case
4. Apportionment of Damages in a Crashworthiness Case
Table of Laws and Rules
Table of Cases
Index

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