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Scott Toomey and Jim Ughetta achieved a defense verdict before a jury in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in July, 2010. Our client, a bicycle helmet manufacturer, was sued by a high school teacher who sustained serious and significant brain injuries, confining him to a wheelchair, when struck by a car….

Jim Ughetta and Scott Toomey achieved a defense verdict in a Philadelphia state court product liability trial involving a carbon composite bicycle handlebar designed by our client. Plaintiff claimed at trial that when he was competing in a bicycle race, his carbon composite handlebar failed, causing him to fall to the ground. As a result…

A Federal District Court in New York denied the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted summary judgment in favor of our client. The court agreed with our client’s arguments on all points when it denied the plaintiff’s motion to strike affirmative defenses from the answer and dismissed the quantum meruit and theft of intellectual…

In a construction case involving a brain-damaged MTA worker, the Bronx Supreme Court accepted our evidence that our client was not responsible for the site and found that no further discovery was required before granting the motion.

Working closely with Boston local counsel Pete Durney and James Kerr, we successfully persuaded the trial court to exclude the testimony of plaintiff’s sole liability expert on the grounds that his opinions were based upon mere conjecture, surmise and speculation which would not assist a jury. This is a potentially case-determinative blow to plaintiff’s electrocution,…

Our client, the distributor of an industrial paper plate press, was sued in connection with personal injuries allegedly sustained by the machine’s operator. Although the distributor had made subsequent modifications to the machine, we secured dismissal of our client by successfully demonstrating that the modifications were not causally related to the alleged injuries.

Working closely with our local counsel, Jim Carlson and Chris Berdy of Christian & Small, LLP, we secured the dismissal of our client in an underground mining accident on the basis that plaintiff’s claim against our client was unsupported by competent evidence. Another client was granted summary judgment in a steel-making equipment fatality on the…

The firm won a dismissal in a fire case involving allegations that our client defectively manufactured heat tape causing a fire that resulted in property damage to a cement facility. The Court found that the plaintiff could not meet his burden of proof and dismissed the claim against our client.

A Federal District Court accepted our argument that the third-party plaintiff in a personal injury suit arising out of a wrecker component failed to adequately support his claims against our client, a component manufacturer, with expert testimony. The Court dismissed the claims against our client with prejudice.

After several days of hearings, Bryon Friedman won an award of $582,000 for our client in a dispute arising out of several aspects of our client’s purchase of business lines pursuant to an asset purchase agreement.