Law Offices of Steven L. Smith, P.C.
Give your Subrogation Cases the second degree  

Results That Make A Difference

Let's admit it. We're all in this for results.

Maximum recoveries, in the minimum amount of time, and at the minimum cost. That is what we do. Here are only a few of the notable results we have achieved for our clients:

° Won a jury verdict in Pennsylvania in a multimillion dollar case where we proved that the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion of rags soaked with linseed oil.

° Won a seven-figure settlement in an Ohio gas explosion case against a gas utility company for not properly protecting a gas regulator from impact damage.

° Reached an eight-figure settlement in a case arising from the collapse of a pre-engineered metal building under the weight of ice and snow.

° First to identify design defect in an entire line of electric baseboard heaters, which were later recalled.

° Elicited admission from a product designer that his design was faulty and could cause the fire in the way we claimed.

° Elicited admission on the record from an electrical engineering Ph.D. that he misapplied a crucial provision of the National Electric Code.

° Persuaded courts to preclude defense experts from testifying because they did not meet the Daubert standards.

Results

February 2006
When a metal building collapses after the statute of repose has run, are you really out of luck? Not always.
November 2005
The reward for tenacity was a 70% recovery in a case where it took over 4 years to identify and successfully pursue the installer of an exhaust fan placed at the top of the chimney for a wood-fired pizza oven.