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Honda Motor Company has expanded its vehicle defect recall to include an additional 438,000 vehicles worldwide, including 379,000 in the United States. According to a news report, Honda officials said the driver's airbag inflators in these vehicles may expand with too much pressure, which can cause the inflator casing to break. This could result in injury or death. The expanded airbag defect recall in New York and [...]

pFor over 40 years, I have regularly driven on Roosevelt Boulevard, the major traffic artery running through north and northeast Philadelphia. Just yesterday, I was driving with my son northbound in the middle lane when two vehicles appeared to be racing out of control, weaving in and out of traffic in a dangerous fashion. Police cars were stopped at several locations apparently investigating a number of a href=" [...]

pBelieve it or not, a recent survey indicated that over 78% of all drivers are improperly seat belted in their vehicle with improper shoulder belt position which means that in the event of an accident, the seat restraint systems will not perform as they were designed to prevent injury or death. When I first started to drive, I very rarely used a seat belt and as I have been practicing catastrophic motor vehicle acc [...]

pIn 2004, a a href="http://www.reiffandbily.com/lawyer-attorney-1325433.html" 15 passenger church van rolled over/a, the plaintiffs’ lawyers representing the deceased victims argued that the Ford Motor Company knew that the vehicle had faulty tires on its vehicles but refused to do anything about it. Plaintiffs’ attorney stated to the jury “the evidence is uncontested that Ford made a conscious decision to no [...]

pRecently one of the major automobile manufacturers confidentially resolved a case involving a href="http://www.reiffandbily.com/lawyer-attorney-1362890.html"brain damage/a to a driver who was at fault during the accident. Counsel was able to demonstrate that the a href="http://www.reiffandbily.com/lawyer-attorney-1700071.html"failure to provide side curtain airbags/a and lack of side laminated glass caused a href= [...]

Recently one of the major automobile manufacturers confidentially resolved a case involving brain damage to a driver who was at fault during the accident. Counsel was able to demonstrate that the failure to provide side curtain airbags and lack of side laminated glass caused massive head trauma and resulting brain damage when the vehicle experienced multiple rollovers. The attorneys were able to demonstrate that t [...]

We all pay a lot of taxes and when we drive down the roads and streets in our cars with precious cargo onboard, we expect that city, state, and federal governments who we pay taxes to will keep the streets safe and free from roadway defects. Many times unfortunately this is not the case and roadway hazards and defect designs puts the safety of drivers and passengers at risk and unfortunately result in catastrophi [...]

For over three decades, I have investigated and prosecuted tens of thousands of car accident cases and automobile defect legal cases have downloaded information from the event data recorder (EDR) also known as the black box to assist in accident reconstruction and reveal what went wrong. The download of the black box often unlocks the mysteries of the car crash and often records the functions of the brakes, seat be [...]

The National Center for Statistics Analysis indicated that over a quarter of a million children are injured every year in car accidents which means that over 700 are injured every day while traveling on the roadways of America. Thousands of children are killed as a result of their failure to use a seat belt, seat belt malfunction, or the improper installation and usage of a child safety seat. Many times catastrophi [...]

As an experienced Philadelphia car accident attorney who has successfully litigated many airbag defect and vehicle products defect, I am well aware that automotive airbags are supposed to deploy within milliseconds to protect lives and avoid catastrophic injuries in the event of an accident. An airbag is inflated by highly compressed gas commonly known as nitrous oxide and a metallic charger. Many times due to a s [...]