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At the the The Doan Law Firm, our staff routinely monitors both the print and electronic media for news reports suggesting the previously unreported or “under-reported” presence of a potential defect in popular consumer products. In today’s post we report on a recent accident involving a Tesla Model S that, according to its driver, suddenly accelerated before winding up in a Shanghai, China river. Whether or not this accident happened exactly as reported is not our issue. Instead, we call…

Next year will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the word entry of the “robot” into the English language when it was used in the title of the 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti – “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) by the Czech writer Karel Capek, who credited his brother Josef Capek as creating it from the Czech term for “drudgery”,robota. In today’s post, the personal injury and defective consumer product lawyer at The Doan Law Firm reports on an unusual recent event…

In a recent post, we reported on a South Florida auto accident involving a 2016 Tesla Model S which claimed the life of Omar Awan, a 48-year-old father of five. Although traffic accident fatalities are an almost routine occurrence in the Greater Miami area, this accident became newsworthy for two reasons: 1) a malfunction of the vehicle’s electronic door handles prevented rescuers from removing the victim after the driver-side airbag failed to deflate after inflating in response to the accident…

A longstanding goal of the “Green Revolution” has been the replacement of vehicles powered by internal combustion engines with those powered by electrical energy. This has led to the introduction of the first mass-produced “total electric” vehicles. However, concerns have been raised over the safety of such vehicles due to unresolved issues concerning their batteries. How the Accident Occurred The following account is compiled from several local news sources. Although we cannot speak of the accuracy of these reports, we…

Federal agencies such as the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) collect, analyze, and report data related to commercial trucking accidents. Although such data is exhaustive and vital to highway safety, these reports have one serious drawback: on a calendar-year basis, most of their data is “old.” Let us explain what we mean by that last statement. When a truck accident occurs local law enforcement, usually with the assistance of the state’s Department…