Blog: Larry E. Coben, Anapol Weiss Shareholder

Larry E. Coben, a shareholder at Anapol Weiss, is renowned for his pioneering litigation in product liability and vehicle safety. With over four decades of experience, Larry has achieved significant victories in cases that have shaped legal precedents and improved consumer safety standards.

Safety in the Skies: The Role of Our Courts

Nov 19, 2024

The article "Safety in the Skies: The Role of Our Courts," written by Anapol Weiss shareholder Larry E. Coben and published in The Legal Intelligencer, discusses the Ninth Circuit’s recent holding regarding the judiciary's role in adjudicating air traffic control (ATC) negligence claims following aviation tragedies. The Federal Aviation Administration oversees air traffic control, which is generally effective in preventing crashes during takeoff and landing. However, when accidents occur, courts must determine if ATC personnel acted...

Motorcycle Crashes: 'I Never Saw the Motorcycle'

Oct 30, 2024

Published in The Legal Intelligencer Article excerpt: Every year, lawyers meet with motorcyclists, or their grieving loved ones to talk about the client's horrendous injuries or a death in a motorcycle crash. The story we hear over and over is "I (or my wife/husband/daughter/son) was driving down the road, it was a nice clear day, and all of a sudden, a car turned right in front of me (him/her) and I couldn't stop. The driver just didn't...

Crashworthiness in the 2020s

Oct 27, 2024

Published in The Legal Intelligencer Below is a summary of “Crashworthiness in the 2020s,” published in The Legal Intelligencer: Crashworthiness, the obligation for manufacturers to design vehicles that protect occupants during crashes, has evolved since the 1968 Larson v. General Motors case. This duty now extends to many vehicles, including airplanes, buses, trucks, and motorcycles, covering protection in frontal, side, rear-end, and rollover collisions. Vehicle safety features aim to mitigate injuries regardless of seatbelt use or crash...

Crashworthiness: Assessing When Catastrophic Injuries from Vehicle Accidents are Caused by Failures in Design

Sep 18, 2024

{Preface: Coben has a long history of winning crashworthiness cases against vehicle manufacturers. In 2024, he and Anapol Weiss shareholder Kila Baldwin won a $20.7 million verdict against Honda Motor Company for a faulty motorcycle gas cap design.} Cars, pick-up trucks, SUVs, vans, motorcycles and over-the-road trucks must all be built to be crashworthy. That means that they must be designed to minimize the risk of serious and catastrophic injury in crashes. The scope of this...

Lawsuits Against Foreign Manufacturers: Difficulties Obtaining Jurisdiction

Apr 5, 2024

Published: The Legal Intelligencer Every day, consumers, workers, and sports enthusiasts use products made in other countries and then imported to the United States. Imports of consumer goods to the United States reached an all-time high in 2022. Americans’ reliance on and use of products designed, manufactured, and then imported to the U.S. from overseas creates significant legal issues when a consumer is injured, maimed, or killed using one of these products. One very profound legal...

Forum Selection—Forum Non ‘Convenience’: No Need for ‘Corrective Action’

Mar 20, 2024

Published in: The Legal Intelligencer Summary: Despite the underlying motivations, or perhaps because of them, the legal grounds for a request to change venue based upon “forum non conveniens” has evolved into a war of words in which our trial courts are asked to decide whether the plaintiff’s selected forum is “vexatious” or “oppressive,” or merely “inconvenient” to the defendant. ...

Hard-Fought Cases: $12 Million Victory

Dec 13, 2023

Uncovering Hidden Dangers in a Catastrophic SUV Rollover A Twelve Million Dollar settlement was reached for a teenager living in Western Pennsylvania, after he suffered catastrophic brain injury in a one vehicle rollover. While riding as a front seat passenger in an older model SUV, the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled over and during the rollover this young man was partially ejected out the passenger door window. While the police attributed this accident to...

Hard-Fought Cases: Millions Awarded in Settlement After Tragic Crash and Fire Exposes Vehicle Safety Failures

Nov 15, 2023

A multiple-million dollar settlement was reached for a well-deserving, horribly burned client who was trapped in her car—her feet were stuck under the floorboard because of crash deformation—after a one-vehicle crash. This settlement involved payments by governmental agencies and the client’s vehicle manufacturer. One evening, our young client was driving home from work when the right tires slipped off the road and into a small ditch, causing her to steer hard to the left and slide...

Hard-Fought Cases: Justice Through Insight

Oct 17, 2023

Multi-Million Dollar Settlement for Blinded Bicyclist in Pennsylvania A multiple-million-dollar settlement was reached for a Western Pennsylvania bicyclist who collided with a car that pulled out in front of him, causing him to suffer massive brain injury and leaving him blind. Unfortunately, the driver had minimal insurance, but we were able to prove that this tragedy happened because signage placed along the roadway by a real estate developer had blocked the view of the bicyclist and the...

Hard-Fought Cases: Justice in the Sunlight

Sep 13, 2023

Securing a Seven-Figure Settlement in a Tragic Crosswalk Incident One sunny morning, an 82-year-old stroke victim was heading home after spending a few hours at a local tavern when tragedy struck. Riding on his motorized scooter, he began crossing a street in the marked crosswalk when he was run down by a police SUV. Over the next 4 months, this gentleman was hospitalized until he died from multiple complications. His adult children, who had a spotty...