When you are driving a vehicle, you depend on the vehicle stopping device. Consumers like you know this as the "braking system."
Typically your car's brakes are made up of several components as follows:
In every products defect case, several manufacturers of components can be on the hook for your bills if you got hurt. Brake defect cases are no different. Below are just some of the components, all or some of which may have been built by many subcontractors.
Some get made of:
All brakes come with brake pads covered in cancerous asbestos. Asbestos helps prevent brakes catching fire. So yes, if you are a worker in the brake or car repair industry and got cancer, we can help.
So these are for helping prevent vehicle's fishtailing or drifting.
Sometimes wrecks come about due to the vibrations your brakes make when the ABS activates.
Most of all brakes assist drivers to:
Accordingly, vehicle brakes are an important factor in avoiding loss of control of vehicles. Properly functioning vehicle braking systems can also:
So when you are out and about on the roads, you must make sure your car is in good repair. Of course, the better the brakes, the easier maneuvering the roads.
Ehline Law commonly practices car accident law cases. Many of these are cases where the injury got caused in full or in part by faulty automobile brakes. So we have faced these situations before.
Why not let our experience be your strength? Have you have suffered economic damages like hospital and repair bills? More important, hire us to get paid for those noneconomic losses. This is intangible money for things like pain, suffering, and emotional distress.
Our firm knows that despite advances in motor vehicle systems design, technology, and safety, brakes fail.
Ehline Law Firm are experts at administering complex cases, such as product defects claims. But we got our start working the less complex cases. So we are also experts at regular tailgating accidents. So when you make that call, we do it all.
And it is good this firm is here for you. Because every year, multitudes of individuals get sent to their maker. Some survivors get horribly disfigured or disabled in driving incidents. Often, defective, or failing vehicle braking systems play a factor.
Important: There is a record of these causing or contributing to roadside calamities. There are records of smash-ups all over the world wide web (See also NHTSA Website).
Yes we can! We will make it happen for you. As a consumer afflicted with the punishing aftermath of one of these events, there is a good chance you are currently negotiating with an insurance adjuster. Even harder is dealing with the other negligent party.
As an untrained advocate, you are trying to get money to pay your bills, etc. Hence, you likely have lost wages, and need pain medication money, etc. In fact, you could be there in bed right now, wasted on pain-killers, calling all the different insurance companies.
You may even be calling the car manufacturer with no legal training. This work you are doing is all in the Herculean effort to recover redress and rectification of your injuries and losses. Conversely, you could hire a great lawyer and maximize the value of your case.
You may get confused about the lack of ease in recovering compensation in contested product liability lawsuits. Also, there is no way a non-lawyer should make legal claims against the manufacturer of a motor vehicle.
Never fear, a motivated, polished product liability attorney from Ehline Law Firm is here. And this is good news. After all, you need lawyers experienced in handling all facets of defective brake recall lawsuits.
Our seasoned staff can go over the details that led to the crisis. We also can deal with the aftermath, to pinpoint the precise cause or causes. Also, our forte is to force those at fault to take responsibility. So we make wrongdoers own up to their duty to compensate you and those you love.
Of particular interest, we insulate you and pursue those who hurt you. We prevent you from all this being thrust upon you while you are ill.
Handling catastrophic injury cases from failing brakes requires specialized knowledge by your legal advocate. And your lawyer will need skills beyond those for regular car crash cases. Your courtroom representative needs to become endowed with specific expertise regarding heavy and light vehicle braking systems.
Also, they need to understand the decision-making process. This thinking is what went along with the design or manufacturing process. Also, the connection to the defect itself must get tied into that process.
For example:
Brake pads also fail. In any event, the motor vehicle brake pad failure attorneys at Ehline Law are willing to handle your case. But the attorneys at Ehline Law understand the loss of any loved one due to pad failure is tough. Brake pad failure can negatively change the family’s way of life forever.
Without the proper representation mourning, you survivors are up the creek without a paddle.
Typical devices and parts that can cause or contribute to a braking failure or accidents are among other things:
Ehline Law has experience in determining fault. So we will find out whether the any of these above known contributing factors caused your catastrophe.
Yes, indeed they do! When brakes do not work, it can cause the vehicle to be involved in an accident. Hence, it can skid out of control and be a cause of impact with other obstacles.
Brake defects are responsible for serious injury or death of drivers and passengers each year in California.
These errors include:
If you have done your research, you may already have discovered that the brakes got recalled.
Especially heinous is when the manufacturer had adequate time to issue a recall. Often, such recall could potentially have prevented your injuries.
Maybe. If discovered manufacturers knew of these problems before marketing and distributing, there is trouble. Particularly relevant is if they proceeded with selling these defective units. After all, they knew all along they were dangerous.
So in that case, you may even have punitive damages claims against a large automobile company. Under agency rules, you can also sue its subcontractors. These are people in the chain of distribution who continued producing the wrong parts. Also, this is in addition to your product liability claim.
Do you think defective brakes or parts caused or contributed to your malaise?. Because of your suspicion, you're anxious about how you will prove your case. So speaking with a lawyer at Ehline Law Firm, lets you go over the facts.
So we can advise you as to the feasibility of filing a federal or state civil case. Also, we can perhaps put you at ease and send out a settlement demand before litigating.
Talking with a seasoned trial lawyer is usually the first big step a victim can take. But there are many steps on the road to recovering money.
You Will Need Money for:
So you are out of work and injured right? You can no longer afford ordinary expenses since getting knocked out of the work-force. Worse, with a permanent, or even temporary disability you may get fired. Speaking to Ehline may help give you some confidence there is light at the end of the tunnel. Speak to a compassionate attorney now at (213) 596-9642.
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