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Defense Win in Wisconsin Product Liability Arbitration

Jim Ughetta, along with local counsel Mark Kircher of Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee, received a unanimous decision in favor of our client from a three-arbitrator panel in Wausau, Wisconsin, after hearing the testimony of several witnesses and the arguments of counsel. Our client, a helmet manufacturer, was sued by a woman who sustained multiple facial fractures requiring three surgeries and the implantation of four plates after a rock thrown by a snowmobile struck her helmet’s face shield. The arbitrators accepted the testimony of the defense expert that there was no defect in the helmet’s design that was causally related to her injuries. The case had been removed from the court system to arbitration to save litigation expenses for our client.