(Articl
e published in DRI’s The Voice of the Defense Bar)
On Saturday, June 6, 2015, a jury in Clinton, Louisiana, returned a defense verdict for Ford Motor Company following a nearly 2-week long trial in an airbag non-deployment case involving fatal injuries. In reaching the verdict, the jury rejected plaintiff’s allegation that Ford defectively designed the supplemental restraint system in a 1995 Ford Mustang. Ford was represented at trial by Keith W. McDaniel and Quincy T. Crochet, of McCranie, Sistrunk, Anzelmo, Hardy, McDaniel & Welch, LLC and by Michael W. Eady of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP. Read Article