https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2024/02/23/7m-cobb-county-verdict-jury-awards-damages-over-yamaha-golf-cart-crash/
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“Our engineering experts proved with computer modeling and dynamic testing that Yamaha’s stock cart loses control and rolls over every time when hard braking is used on a downhill slope,” said plaintiff counsel Frank Bayuk of Bayuk Pratt.
February 23, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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What You Need to Know
- Cobb County State Court jury returns $7 million product liability verdict after child injured in rollover golf cart accident.
- Jurors apportioned majority fault to Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corp. of America for defective ‘rear-only braking design,’ but also ascribed liability to plaintiff’s father.
- Litigators with Bayuk Pratt and Schneider Injury Law collaborated to create prevailing plaintiff team.
- Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial lawyers led defense team that included lawyers from at least eight additional firms.
A Cobb County State Court jury has awarded $7 million in damages to the mother of a girl injured in a golf cart rollover within a Marietta neighborhood in 2018.
Plaintiff counsel with Bayuk Pratt and Schneider Injury Law credit the seven-figure outcome to their ability to convince jurors that the child’s injuries resulted from the ”defective and unreasonably dangerous” design of the flagship Yamaha G29 Drive golf cart’s braking system.
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