Posts in Tire Defects

More than nineteen years after the last tire was produced, Goodyear tire has agreed to recall more than 173,000 G159 recreational vehicle tires fitted for Class A motorhomes due to heightened risks of tread separation. According to lawsuits filed against Goodyear, the G159 tire was designed for regional delivery trucks and not for extended highway…

EL PASO, Texas – The Ammons Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against Omni United Pte. Ltd. on behalf of a family who lost three adults, a minor, and an unborn child in a crash caused by the partial tread separation of the right rear tire on a Ford Transit Van. The crash occurred when…

Houston, Texas – The Ammons Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against Bridgestone Corporation on behalf of an Arizona man who was injured during a rollover crash after being hit by a truck that suffered a sudden tire failure. The accident occurred in Maricopa County, Arizona, on May 12, 2021, when a Bridgestone R238 tire…

On behalf of the family of a man who was killed in a devastating collision, attorneys Rob Ammons and Adam Milasincic have filed a tire defect lawsuit. The crash occurred when the 18-wheeler the man was driving experienced a partial tread separation of its left front tire. The sudden tire failure sent the 18-wheeler across…

Beginning in June of 2017, Sentury Tire Thailand altered the tire manufacturing processes at its tire plant in Rayong, Thailand. Based on a recent investigation conducted over the past two months, it has now been uncovered that between September of 2017 and June of 2019, Sentury's Rayong tire plant made over six thousand tires with…

Rob Ammons has successfully concluded a product defect lawsuit filed against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company on behalf of a 30-year-old man who was severely injured when the 1995 Ford Bronco he was the passenger in rolled over, due to the Pro Comp Xterrain tire separating from the carcass. It was alleged in the lawsuit…

Our team at The Ammons Law Firm recently won compensation for four children of a Mississippi couple who were left orphaned after a serious crash. The victims died after the right rear tire on the 2004 Ford Expedition the couple was driving on the highway failed through tread separation. The sudden tire disablement caused the…

Corpus Christi, Texas, attorney John Gsanger and his Michigan co-counsel Craig Hilborn, Kevin Riddle, and Barry Conybeare obtained a $16,115,048 jury verdict on behalf of Harry Patel against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The jury found Goodyear negligent, in breach of warranty, and also found Harry Patel was innocent of any negligence on his part….

Michelin has agreed to compensate the survivors of two women killed in a crash triggered by a partial tire tread separation of a Michelin LTX A/T tire. Additionally, the driver and two passengers who were injured in the crash will also receive monetary compensation from the tire maker. The family members were traveling in a 1997 Chevrolet pick-up…

A de-treading defective tire resulted in a head-on collision that led to the death of beloved community leader in 2013. On Friday evening, a jury handed down a record-breaking $33 million verdict holding a tire Manufacture directly responsible for its lax approach to safety and manufacturing that resulted in the fatal wreck. John Gsanger, of…