Results count. This is why Jaime Jackson is one of Pennsylvania’s top personal injury lawyers. Jaime has achieved multi-million dollar verdicts, which you can read about on these pages. These results show how we successfully brought closure for our clients by holding wrongdoers accountable for violating the safety rules which are meant to protect us all. If you need a compassionate, personal injury lawyer with proven experience, please get in touch.
Jaime Jackson recently settled an automotive products liability case against a vehicle manufacturer. Our clients were the parents whose son died in a vehicle fuel-fed fire following a collision.
In this case, the vehicle exited its travel lane and left the roadway for unknown reasons. The vehicle collided with a drainage ditch which caused it to flip over and catch fire. Tragically, the driver could not get out of the vehicle and died in the fire.
Our client, who was driving his car and wearing his seatbelt, suffered a severe thoracic spinal cord injury when his vehicle was rear ended. Rather than his seat protecting him and restraining his torso in place, he was propelled backwards into the rear seat of his car because the driver’s seatback had collapsed, and the head restraint became dislodged. This caused him to be projected into the rear seat, resulting in his injuries. Jaime Jackson Law successfully sued the vehicle manufacturer for the defective design of the driver’s seating system resulting in a seatback collapse spinal injury.
Earlier this year, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was upheld as admissible evidence by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania as a means of confirming a diagnosis of a traumatic brain injury.
Many new cars today come with safety features as standard. However, there are also many cars where additional safety features are optional add-ons at the buyer’s expense, or the manufacturer chooses not to include the crash avoidance technology as standard equipment. In this case our client’s vehicle, which was not equipped with a lane keeping system left its lane of travel, entered the breakdown lane, and exited the roadway where it then contacted a culvert. This caused the vehicle to roll over and catch fire. Our client died in the fire.