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Evaluating and Litigating Vehicle Crashworthiness Claims: Determining Viability and Building a Successful Case

2026-03-13 13:00:00

2026-03-13 13:00:00

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Master vehicle crashworthiness claims—identify viable product liability theories, prove safer alternative designs, and unlock additional recovery in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases.

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Master vehicle crashworthiness claims—identify viable product liability theories, prove safer alternative designs, and unlock additional recovery in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases.

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Course Overview

Unlock Hidden Crashworthiness Claims

Participants learn to identify, evaluate, and litigate crashworthiness claims using forensic, medical, and engineering evidence. Attorneys gain tools to uncover additional recovery when traditional insurance falls short.

Key topics that will be covered

What will you learn

Attorneys will learn to integrate forensic, medical, and engineering evidence to identify enhanced injury caused by vehicle design defects and safety system failures.

What will you gain

Attorneys will gain a strategic framework to uncover additional recovery when traditional insurance is insufficient and to screen cases effectively.

Crashworthiness principles
Understand five foundational safety principles governing occupant protection and enhanced-injury litigation.
Enhanced injury
Distinguish injuries from the initial collision versus those caused by defective vehicle design.
Case screening
Identify when to pursue or decline a crashworthiness claim based on liability strength.
Alternative design
Prove technologically and economically feasible safer designs that would have prevented the injury.
Expert strategy
Retain and coordinate reconstructionists, biomechanical engineers, and automotive design specialists across technical disciplines.
Common claim types
Recognize recurring crashworthiness patterns including roof crush, seatback failures, and airbag malfunctions.

What will you learn

Attorneys will learn to integrate forensic, medical, and engineering evidence to identify enhanced injury caused by vehicle design defects and safety system failures.

What will you gain

Attorneys will gain a strategic framework to uncover additional recovery when traditional insurance is insufficient and to screen cases effectively.

Agenda

Session 1

Forensic, Medical, and Engineering Analysis in Crashworthiness Cases

Session 2

Proving Feasible Safer Alternative Vehicle Designs

Session 3

Knowing When and Why to Turndown A Potential Crashworthiness Case

Session 4

Knowing What Kind of Experts to Hire

Session 5

Most Common Vehicle Crashworthiness Cases

clock 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST

Forensic, Medical, and Engineering Analysis in Crashworthiness Cases

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

Evaluating a crashworthiness case requires integrating accident reconstruction, vehicle dynamics, biomechanical analysis, and medical causation evidence. Attorneys assess whether injuries stem from the collision or safety system failures by analyzing intrusion, restraints, airbags, and alignment between physical evidence and medical findings.

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

clock 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Proving Feasible Safer Alternative Vehicle Designs

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

Proving a crashworthiness claim requires showing a safer alternative design was technologically feasible, economically practical, and would not impair vehicle utility. Attorneys must present industry standards, testing data, and demonstrate the design would have prevented or reduced injuries to overcome manufacturer defenses.

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

clock 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm EST

Knowing When and Why to Turndown A Potential Crashworthiness Case

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

Not every crash supports a viable crashworthiness claim, making early case screening essential. Attorneys must evaluate crash severity, intrusion, occupant movement, and injury consistency with defects. Identifying weak cases early avoids costly expert investments and strengthens long-term litigation success.

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

clock 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm EST

Knowing What Kind of Experts to Hire

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

Crashworthiness cases rely heavily on expert testimony across technical fields. Attorneys must retain reconstructionists, biomechanical engineers, design experts, and medical professionals who can link defects to injuries. Coordinated, credible expert analysis is essential to withstand challenges and succeed at summary judgment and trial.

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

clock 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm EST

Most Common Vehicle Crashworthiness Cases

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

Common crashworthiness cases include roof crush, seatback failures, defective restraints, airbag malfunctions, ejections, and post-collision fires. Recognizing these patterns helps attorneys identify product liability issues within negligence cases, guiding investigation strategies, expert selection, and uncovering additional avenues for recovery.

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

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Joe Ervin

The Law Firm for Truck Safety, LLP
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Kevin Foley

Reminger Co
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Grant H. Lawson

The Law Firm for Truck Safety, LLP
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

E. Todd Tracy is a Board-Certified Texas attorney who has spent more than 38 years litigating vehicle crashworthiness cases and holding the automotive industry accountable for safety failures. Throughout his career, he has tried 179 crashworthiness cases against major domestic and international manufacturers and suppliers, including GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Paccar, Kenworth, TRW, Key Safety, Takata, Tokai Rika, Dorel Juvenile Group, and Graco. With a degree in applied physics, Mr. Tracy combines technical knowledge with courtroom experience, handling cases in 42 states against every major vehicle manufacturer except Volvo. Over the past two decades, his firm has conducted 650 crash and sled tests to prove defect and safer alternative design—often performing testing when NHTSA and manufacturers did not—and he makes those tests publicly available to lawyers, regulators, and the industry. He has testified before House and Senate Committees on vehicle safety improvements and has remained active in the Texas Trial Lawyers Association for more than 30 years, teaching, writing, and speaking nationwide on product liability and vehicle safety issues.

Education & Credentials

Mr. Tracy holds a degree in applied physics, a foundation that informs his technical approach to vehicle defect litigation. He is Board Certified in Texas, reflecting his specialized experience and qualifications in his field of practice.

Recognition & Leadership

Mr. Tracy has testified before various U.S. House and Senate Committees on vehicle safety issues, including needed improvements to better protect occupants. He has been active in the Texas Trial Lawyers Association for over 30 years, taught for 20 years at TTLA’s Trial Advocacy College of Texas, spoken at TTLA and 35 other state trial lawyer organizations, and authored 178 articles to date.

Professional Involvement

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Tracy’s firm has conducted 650 crash and sled tests to prove defect and safer alternative design, including testing performed when NHTSA and manufacturers did not conduct such testing. He makes these tests available to other lawyers, NHTSA, and the vehicle industry, and has also taught product liability, cross-examination techniques, and design defect case development at numerous law schools nationwide.

Experience

For more than 38 years, Mr. Tracy has focused on vehicle crashworthiness litigation, trying 179 cases against major domestic and international manufacturers and suppliers. He has handled cases in 42 states and has litigated against every major vehicle manufacturer except Volvo, consistently working to hold the industry accountable for safety failures.

Todd Tracy

The Tracy Law Firm

E. Todd Tracy is a Board-Certified Texas attorney who has spent more than 38 years litigating vehicle crashworthiness cases and holding the automotive industry accountable for safety failures. Throughout his career, he has tried 179 crashworthiness cases against major domestic and international manufacturers and suppliers, including GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Paccar, Kenworth, TRW, Key Safety, Takata, Tokai Rika, Dorel Juvenile Group, and Graco. With a degree in applied physics, Mr. Tracy combines technical knowledge with courtroom experience, handling cases in 42 states against every major vehicle manufacturer except Volvo. Over the past two decades, his firm has conducted 650 crash and sled tests to prove defect and safer alternative design—often performing testing when NHTSA and manufacturers did not—and he makes those tests publicly available to lawyers, regulators, and the industry. He has testified before House and Senate Committees on vehicle safety improvements and has remained active in the Texas Trial Lawyers Association for more than 30 years, teaching, writing, and speaking nationwide on product liability and vehicle safety issues.

Education & Credentials

Mr. Tracy holds a degree in applied physics, a foundation that informs his technical approach to vehicle defect litigation. He is Board Certified in Texas, reflecting his specialized experience and qualifications in his field of practice.

Recognition & Leadership

Mr. Tracy has testified before various U.S. House and Senate Committees on vehicle safety issues, including needed improvements to better protect occupants. He has been active in the Texas Trial Lawyers Association for over 30 years, taught for 20 years at TTLA’s Trial Advocacy College of Texas, spoken at TTLA and 35 other state trial lawyer organizations, and authored 178 articles to date.

Professional Involvement

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Tracy’s firm has conducted 650 crash and sled tests to prove defect and safer alternative design, including testing performed when NHTSA and manufacturers did not conduct such testing. He makes these tests available to other lawyers, NHTSA, and the vehicle industry, and has also taught product liability, cross-examination techniques, and design defect case development at numerous law schools nationwide.

Experience

For more than 38 years, Mr. Tracy has focused on vehicle crashworthiness litigation, trying 179 cases against major domestic and international manufacturers and suppliers. He has handled cases in 42 states and has litigated against every major vehicle manufacturer except Volvo, consistently working to hold the industry accountable for safety failures.

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