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

October 2008
Won a plaintiff's verdict in a $600,000 trial over whether a fire in a Mail Boxes Etc. store was caused by a neon sign hanging in the window or the copier below.
April 2007, May 2008
The conventional wisdom is that alarm contracts are bulletproof. Not always.