Mount Grand Jury Prize $ 850,000 in aluminum bat action
Thursday, November 5, 2009
HELENA, Mont - A jury found Wednesday that the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger baseball bats are able to provide enough information about the risks of the product to warn that the allocation of a family of $ 850,000 for the year 2003, death of her son a baseball game.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBrandon Patch's family claimed that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they drive the baseball to travel with greater speed. They said that the time of their 18 years old son was not enough to react to the ball is hit before it hit him in the head while pitching in a baseball game of the Legion in Helena United States in 2003.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textLewis and Clark County District Court jury awarded a total of $ 850,000 in damages against Louisville, Kentucky-based Hillerich & Bradsby because of warnings on the product space.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe boy \ 's mother, Debbie Patch, was stunned by the verdict. The family is happy and says that the verdict read.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text "We never expected, " he said. "We hope that we could see the truth for most people. "
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Unable to perform Translation:invalid textLawyers for Hillerich & Bradsby declined comment. Argued that accidents are bound to happen in baseball, and 'nothing intrinsically safe aluminum baseball bat art
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textA spokesman for the legendary Bat-maker, said Wednesday the company is all right and not the decision \ to be "seems to be an indictment of the ball sport together. "
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text\ "We have a bat in accordance with, " said Rick Redman. "The fact that BAT approved by the organization to play baseball \ 'and for organizations. "
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textSporting Goods Manufacturers Association 's Don ' t Take Away My Bat program, a group of athletes of Commerce, said that while Patch 's tragic death is exactly the same thing could happen with a wooden club.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textCurt Drake, a member of the family 's lawyers told the jury arrived at by awarding a total of $ 792,000 to Brandon Patch for his loss of income and pain and suffering, an amount that goes to his succession. The family has received $ 58,000 for his pain and suffering and damage.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textJudge Kathy Seeley is still considering the punitive damages in this case.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIn the decision Wednesday, the jury also decided that the product is not defective. Drake said the decision was not significant because the jury found a risk without adequate advance notice.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textThe lawyer said the family \ 's victory is unlikely to change the way aluminum bats are used, but it could help boost efforts to seek a passage for youth baseball bats wood.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textMetal bats is popular in amateur sport in 1970, but still uses baseball bats professional wood. Some amateur teams have decided to change in recent years, partly thanks to the patch \ 's death.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid text"We met again on the way baseball should be played to play professional baseball \" said Debbie Patch.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textBrandon Patch was pitching for the Miles City Mavericks when the ball bounced over his head will fall behind the first base after a trip up to 50 feet in the air.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textPatch had convulsions on the ground in front of a horrified audience, and died a few hours after his injury.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textHis family 's application was made one of many in recent years, with an aluminum bat from Hillerich & Bradsby.
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textLast year, continued the family of a boy, the New Jersey following a brain injury from a line drive off Louisville Slugger aluminum bat, the company had been beaten and others have said they would have known it was dangerous. Steven Domalewski was 12 when he hit the ball in 2006. His family 's suit is pending before the Superior Court of New Jersey
Unable to perform Translation:invalid textIn 2002, parents of the young pitcher Jeremy Brett of Enid, Oklahoma, won a jury verdict against Hillerich & Bradsby, and received compensation. The couple filed an appeal after Brett was shot in the head with a ball made of an aluminum bat made by the company, suffering from serious head injuries.
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