Larry E Coben

November 01, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

A very recent case decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit provides well-reasoned analysis of the role of the judiciary in deciding claims when tragedy occurs in the sky.

By Larry E. Coben

6 minute read

October 17, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

In many instances, the actual cause of this type of crash was a decision made by a motorcycle manufacturer who chose not to pay attention to history and built the vehicle without adequate lighting conspicuity.

By Larry E. Coben

4 minute read

October 04, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Over the past 56 years, as vehicle design has matured, the responsibility to provide crashworthy vehicles has been extended to airplanes, buses, cars, vans, SUVs, pick-up trucks, motorcycles and over-the-road trucks. The scope of this duty extends to safety features that can mitigate injury in virtually every type of crash including frontal, rear-end, side and rollover collisions.

By Larry E. Coben

5 minute read

September 30, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

No one has ever attempted any sort of retrospective study of the relationship between helmet design and the frequency or nature of injury. Lacking any reasonably sound statistical method to correlate injury to helmet design, counsel is relegated to a case-by-case review.

By Larry E. Coben

10 minute read

August 06, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

What course of action exists to address the actions of an executive who fails to follow our laws and employs "intrigues of ambitions," which aspire to tyranny and threaten the existence of government in the name of democracy?

By Larry E. Coben

7 minute read

July 16, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

I'm sharing with you my approach to this recent trial, including how we prepared the case from jury selection through the verdict. I've thought about writing about these topics for a long time, but I just never found the time. For those readers who try civil cases or for those who've thought it might be interesting to become a trial lawyer, this is for you. I hope you enjoy it.

By Larry E. Coben

10 minute read

June 10, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Because the focus of a strict liability case is on the product, the relevancy of post-manufacture changes is quite germane and necessary for the jury to fairly assess the proffered alternative design and proximate causation.

By Larry E. Coben

8 minute read

May 07, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

While CAS is becoming a standard feature on most passenger vehicles sold in the United States—and the NHTSA has announced that it must be standard on all passenger vehicles by model year 2029—what remains problematic is its "unpredictable" or limited effectiveness.

By Larry E. Coben

7 minute read

April 05, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Americans' reliance on and use of products designed, manufactured, and then imported to the United States from overseas creates significant legal issues when a consumer is injured, maimed or killed using one of these products. One very profound legal issue involves the challenge to obtain personal jurisdiction over a foreign manufacturer. We look briefly at this issue.

By Larry E. Coben

8 minute read

March 04, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Every day people are injured by defectively designed products. Many times, the person injured was not actually "using" the product.

By Larry E. Coben

9 minute read