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Attorneys: Dennis Donnelly and Harris Feldman
Settlement: $2,300,000.
Summer 2008

Dennis Donnelly and Harris Feldman represented an 18 year old, brand new driver who sustained a permanent brain injury after being struck by a poorly designed and unsafe airbag, when it deployed from a low speed collision which she caused. Cars can be unsafe, at any speed, and thus legally uncrashworthy, when poorly designed safety devices cause rather than prevent death and brain damage in low speed accidents. Dennis, Harris, and Kris, their paralegal, have handled such claims for many years, and were able to prove after years of complex and expensive discovery and expert analysis, that a defective airbag on her first car will cause a high school "Miss Congeniality" winner to battle the aftermath of a closed head brain injury for the rest of her life. Their client was seat belted, and the police were shocked to find her in a coma after a 15 mile per hour impact. It was only after years of investigation and expert analysis that Dennis and Harris were able to prove that the airbag that was supposed to save her, actually caused her brain injury. Through extensive work with 3 different automotive airbag design and performance experts, Dennis and Harris were also able to discover that the manufacturer of the vehicle experimented with an over simplified airbag sensor design in an effort to save money; even though that same manufacturer used a better design in its other vehicles that would have prevented this young woman’s injury, by not firing the airbag upon impact at such a slow rate of speed.

Mr. Donnelly and Mr. Feldman were able to settle this case for $2,300,000.