On May 29, 2008, Caddell & Chapman received approval from an Orange County California Superior Court of a national class action settlement involving approximately 74,000 Nissan 350Z sports cars which experienced tire roar and abnormal tire wear. The settlement provides valuable benefits for owners or lessees of the 2003 and 2004 model year 350Zs. These benefits are designed to address the issues that were the subject of consumers’ claims, including a complimentary service visit and …
Caddell & Chapman represented, as lead counsel, the family of a teenage girl who died in an auto accident just east of Amarillo, Texas. The accident involved nine vehicles (5 of them eighteen-wheelers) traveling on the highway in the midst of a grass fire. The teenager was a passenger in the rear of a Chevy Trailblazer occupied by her best friend, and the friend’s father and mother. The Trailblazer was smashed between two eighteen-wheelers when …
Caddell & Chapman was lead counsel for the mother and father of a 23 year old man who suffocated to death when he became engulfed in grain while working at the Port Elevator grain facility in Brownsville, Texas. The employer failed to take adequate safety precautions or provide safety equipment which would have prevented Mr. Casados’ death. The family elected to try the case to a jury when Port Elevator offered only $50,000 to settle …
Caddell & Chapman was co-lead counsel in the largest consumer property damage case in history, in which over $1.2 billion (total attorneys’ fees: $42,230,000; litigation expenses: $536,000) was recovered from Shell and Celanese. Beginning in the late 1970s, Shell Oil worked with Celanese and DuPont in the development and marketing of a polybutylene plumbing (PB) system. The pipes were made of polybutylene, which is a resin by-product of a Shell oil-refining process, and the fittings …