Evan Allen

A Mobile County jury found in June 2023 that the passenger airbag in a 1998 Infiniti QX4 was defective and awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages to a girl who lost the sight of her left eye in a low-speed crash at age 15. Nissan challenged the verdict on appeal. In October 2025 the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the finding of a safer alternative design but sent the new-trial motion back to the trial court, so the verdict is not yet final.

John Dees, a staffing-agency worker at a plastic-netting plant in Evergreen, Alabama, had his arm pulled into a Ram4 stretching machine in January 2015. After the Alabama Supreme Court held the Alabama Tenax companies immune under the workers' compensation act, the case went to trial against the Italian manufacturer, Tenax SPA. On Nov. 30, 2018, a Conecuh County jury awarded $649,363 in compensatory damages and $125,000 in punitive damages.

An Alabama jury awarded Gregory Bell $500,000 in compensatory damages against equipment supplier DISA Industries after he was burned when his boot dipped into molten metal at Union Foundry in 2010. Bell underwent four surgeries, including toe amputations, and spent 30 days hospitalized. Judgment was entered on the verdict on August 30, 2016. On June 29, 2018, the Supreme Court of Alabama reversed and rendered judgment for DISA, so the award did not stand.