Trial Transcripts: Presler v. Lincoln Electric - Part One

Opening Statement for the plaintiff, by Mikal Watts of the Watts Law Firm in Corpus Christi

What's this case about? When you put aside the 60 some-odd people back there and all the high tech screens and all this technology, it really comes down to a very simple issue, and that is that these Defendants knew that their product would cause brain damage and they chose to withhold that information from their customers and they chose not to provide a meaningful instruction as to how to avoid it. That's what this case is about, withholding information that they knew …