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Vehicle Safety News

May 19, 2007

Orlando Sentinel, "Victory Against Ford After Third Jury Trial in Seat Belt Defect Case; Jury awards Orange man $32.5M in '96 collision"

A northwest Orange County man who suffered severe brain injuries in a 1996 car accident when a seat belt failed was awarded $32.5 million Thursday by a local jury. After a third trial in a long-disputed case, an Orange Circuit Court jury ruled that a restraint-system defect caused the head injury to Mark Force, now 38. It also ruled that Ford Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp. -- which designed the seat-belt system for part-owner Ford -- were negligent for failing to warn consumers about the seat-belt defect in the 1993 Ford Escort driven by Force.

"They had five years of warning to do something about this on Ford Escorts and Mercury Tracers but did nothing about it," said one of Force's trial lawyers, Ben Hogan of Birmingham, Ala. Force, then 27, was driving northbound on two-lane Clarcona Road on July 1, 1996, when he was struck head-on by a southbound Ford Mustang that swerved into his lane to pass another vehicle. He was wearing a motorized shoulder belt and a manual lap belt.

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In 2007, in Mraz v. DaimlerChrysler, Lieff Cabraser attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained the fourth-largest verdict in California for the year. At trial, plaintiffs showed that a defective transmission was responsible for making a Dodge Dakota pickup shift into reverse and run over Richard Mraz.

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