A faulty seatbelt in a General Motors Envoy caused a catastrophic spinal cord injury that led to paralysis (quadriplegia) in an auto accident. A young woman’s family is now suing the auto manufacturer for products liability.
Our firm’s car accident attorneys in San Diego believe that driving a safe car with the proper parts and accessories is the first step to preventing an automobile accident. Products liability can occur if a design defect causes injury in a car accident.
If you are in a car crash, you can experience personal injuries, including whiplash, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, paralysis and physical disabilities.
Amanda Dinnigan, now 10 years old, was involved in a car accident which left her a quadriplegic. Her family is now suing General Motors claiming that her products liability related injury was due to a design defect in seatbelt. Her father, Robert, hundreds of others who’ve taken GM and Chrysler to court for injuries they blame on defects are worried they’ll end up with nothing to pay their loved one’s medical bills if the companies go belly up.
He estimates her medical bills run at $500,000 a year.
“I don’t feel that I can negotiate with General Motors with a gun to my head,” said the Dinnigans’ lawyer, Alan Shapey, of the Manhattan firm Lipsig, Shapey, Manus & Moverman.
A battalion of lawyers across the country is lobbying Congress to create a fund like the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund for victims like Amanda.
“It’s not fair that she be victimized once by a defective seatbelt system and then again by the mismanagement of a company that drove itself into bankruptcy,” Shapey said.
The San Diego car accident attorneys at our firm believe that if a loved one or you are involved in a car accident and suffer a personal injury from a products liability the manufacturer of the defective car might very well be held accountable.
Please feel free to call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or click here for a FREE CONSULTATION with an experienced car accident attorney. We have a large bilingual staff that can assist you in either English or Spanish.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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