Smith Lee Nebenzahl Product Liability and Personal Injury Cases
The following are example of Smith Lee Nebenzahl personal injury law and product liability cases our attorneys have brought in Massachusetts and elsewhere:
Product Liability: Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys represented a Massachusetts worker who was injured by an overhead monorail system at a commercial laundry facility, sustaining a brain injury. Attorney Nebenzahl brought a product liability lawsuit claiming that the system was defective, resulting in a $427,500 settlement of the worker’s product liability claims, in addition to amounts recovered under the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system.
Personal Injury (Product Liability): Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys represented a Massachusetts worker who was injured by a defective air gun at his workplace, an auto body shop. Attorney Nebenzahl brought a product liability lawsuit based on the absence of a safety feature which would have prevented the worker’s injury. The worker received a $175,000 settlement of his product liability claims, in addition to amounts recovered under the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system.
Personal Injury (Product Liability): Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys represented a Massachusetts worker who suffered serious personal injury while working as a toll collector while trying to escape an oncoming truck whose brakes had failed. Attorney Nebenzahl brought a product liability lawsuit against the trucking company. The worker received a $250,000 settlement of his product liability claims, in addition to amounts recovered under the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system.
Personal Injury (Product Liability): Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys represented a worker who suffered serious personal injury when a tire that he was inflating exploded. Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys brought a product liability lawsuit against the tire company, alleging defects in the tire and rim system that had been known in the industry for years. Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys’ recovered over $700,000 to compensate for his brain injuries following the explosion.
Personal Injury (Product Liability): Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys represented a twenty-eight year old Massachusetts man who suffered traumatic brain injuries when a tire exploded as he was trying to inflate it. Smith Lee Nebenzahl attorneys brought a product liability lawsuit against the tire company, alleging defects in the tire and rim system that had been known in the industry for years. Attorney Nebenzahl obtained a $500,000 verdict after trial in the Massachusetts Superior Court, which was upheld by the Massachusetts Appeals Court in 1994.
Personal Injury (lead poisoning): Attorney Nebenzahl recovered over $350,000 from a landlord for two children living in an apartment with dangerous levels of lead paint, who were diagnosed with significant injury.
Personal Injury (automobile): Attorney Nebenzahl recovered $2.6 million for the family of a twelve year old girl killed after being struck by a truck driver.
Personal Injury (negligence): Attorney Nebenzahl recovered over $100,000 on behalf of a seventeen year old Massachusetts girl who suffered serious burn injury after the defendant poured gasoline over an outdoor fire, causing a vapor explosion.
Personal Injury (premises liability): Attorney Nebenzahl recovered over $100,000 on behalf of a restaurant customer who tripped over a deviation in the walkway causing serious injury to her hand that required two surgeries and left the plaintiff with some permanent loss of function.
Personal Injury (dog bite): Attorney Nebenzahl recovered over $50,000 on behalf of a five year old girl bitten by a dog who suffered injury resulting in an infection, surgery and hospitalization.