Defective Vehicle Attorneys in Georgia

Tire Failures
Defective tire claims take many forms depending on whether the defect arises from a design defect, manufacturing defect, poor service, or a combination of each. In Georgia alone, there are over 1,000 serious or fatal wrecks involving defective tires each year. As a firm, we have dedicated ourselves to representing individuals and families injured in accidents involving defective tires. To learn more about our tire failure practice, click here.

Defective Seats
Defective seat belt cases generally fall into two categories. The first is where the seat belt fails completely and the occupant is thrown from the vehicle or otherwise seriously injured when he or she leaves the seat containment area. The second is where the seat belt fails to adequately restrain the occupant and he or she violently strikes the steering wheel, windshield, or even other occupants. Defective seat belt cases are extremely difficult for an average person or attorney to identify. Spooling systems, torsion bars, latch plates, and webbing designs vary from vehicle to vehicle and it takes a highly experienced eye to identify problems unique to each seat belt system.

Defective Seat Belts
Defective seat design cases where the stock seat (not a child seat) in a passenger car, truck, or SUV suddenly and unexpectedly collapses during a rear collision accident. The resulting collapse can be lethal to the seat occupant and any passengers in the back seat. Defective seat cases are generally identified when one occupant sustains a severe head, neck, or back injury due to a seat that is inexplicably in the down position. Defective seat design cases are often expert intensive and require a careful teardown of the seat and its components.

SUV Rollover Accidents
SUV Rollover claims involve a defectively designed vehicle that is either unreasonably prone to rollover[2] (such as the Ford Explorer) or a vehicle that fails to provide adequate and economically feasible safeguards for occupants, such as electronic stability control. SUV rollover accidents typically involve a vehicle that has rolled over on a roadway without hitting a ditch or other obstacle. In many cases, an SUV rollover may be caused by a blown tire.

Defective Roof in a Car, Truck, Van, or SUV
If the roof is deformed in a rollover accident it will often directly cause an injury or cause other safety systems to lose critical strength in protecting occupants. When the roof of a vehicle shows serious buckling, downward crevices, or is even completely flat, it is often caused by a defectively designed roof. Automobile manufacturers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting against increased roof crush standards while millions of victims from Georgia and other states suffer severe and permanent neck, spine, and head injuries in rollover accidents with defective roofs.

Defective Automobile Door Latch
Defective door latches cause or contribute to thousands of injuries every year. A defective door latch failure case is typically associated with an accident where an occupant is either fully or partially ejected from a vehicle during a rollover accident.

Defective Air Bag
A Defective air bag case generally falls into one of two categories. The first is where a defective airbag fails to go off when the vehicle is involved in a serious accident. The second is when a vehicle does not have an air bag (such as a side-curtain airbag) when the presence of that airbag would have mitigated the severity of a wreck.

Fuel-fed Fire Cases
Fuel-fed fire cases are commonly caused by defectively designed vehicles where the fuel tank is outside of the frame (such as in many Jeep Grand Cherokees) or by defective fuel tank components that allow liquid fuel to escape from the vehicle and cause a fire or make an existing fire much worse.