ATV Litigation

Litigation Bulleting

A Publication of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group, Inc.     Vol. 3, No. 3

A Texas jury has awarded $13.4 million in a case involving a 1984 Honda ATC 200S three-wheeler. The plaintiff was rendered a paraplegic when the ATC "plowed" off the roadway and over an embankment. The complaint charged the ATC was defective due to the lack of a limited slip differential, which could have been done cheaply and would have made it safer to turn. Former Consumer Products Safety Commission Commissioner Stuart Statler of Washington, D.C. testified on behalf of the plaintiff regarding his warning the public in 1985 about the instability and inherent danger such vehicles presented to its riders. Barrera v. Honda Motor Co., Ltd., et al.AIEG members Randall Reeves and Bob Bennett of Houston, Texas represented the plaintiff.