Kia Motors Corp.’s win in a wrongful death case brought by the family of a driver killed by an air bag hinged on the testimony of a crucial expert witness: Jeffrey L. Pearson of Collision Protection Sciences, a Rochester, Mich., consulting firm.
Pearson testified for four hours June 22 in Cobb County State Court under the questioning of defense attorney James P. Feeney of Dykema Gossett, a Detroit area law firm. Pearson was on the stand again for half the next day in cross examination and redirect. In the process, Pearson managed to convince a jury that Kia was not at fault for the death of Evelyn LaFleur, a 69-year-old McDuffie County grandmother who died from a lacerated aorta where her 1999 Sportage air bag punched her chest after a low-speed, minor collision near Augusta, according to court records and testimony.
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