Several years ago I handled a products liability case against an auto manufacturer that had designed its braking system on one model so that a poorly designed sensor would turn off the antilock braking system without warning. As a result, our client was a brain damaged quadriplegic. It took much expert analysis and discovery of records to figure that out.
This is a great illustration of why it is so important to preserve the right to thorough discovery to uncover the truth. Without a persistent plaintiffs’ lawyer forcing disclosure, GM would have kept all this secret without regard to the