Biomechanical analysis from Hayes+Associates, Inc., helped convince a jury last fall that a plaintiff’s allegations of negligence against the City of Molalla, Ore., were not supported by the evidence.

Reconstruction by Hayes + Associates, Inc. of a collision between a Portland bicyclist and an ambulance contributed to a defense verdict by supporting the ambulance driver’s claim that the cyclist toppled into the side of the vehicle when her tire was caught in light rail tracks.

Analysis by Hayes + Associates, Inc., an expert witness and consulting firm in Corvallis, ORE., played a role in the September 2016 settlement of two cases resulting from a faulty General Motors ignition switch, implicated in 124 deaths and 275 injuries, that cut power to engine and safety features including power steering, power brakes and airbags.

Reconstruction by Hayes & Associates, Inc., on the roles played by occupant dynamics and injury biomechanics in determining impact speed between a jet ski and a larger boat in 2008 contributed to the decision by a Los Angeles jury to award $21.7 million to a 20-year-old woman who suffered a permanent brain injury in the Riverside County incident.

Research by Hayes+Associates, Inc., a Corvallis, Ore., consulting firm, and testimony by H+A President Wilson C. “Toby” Hayes, Ph.D., helped convince a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, that three patents owned by Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) DePuy Synthes unit, a maker of artificial spinal-repair products, were infringed by intervertebral-implant products sold by Globus Medical Inc. (GMED).

stimony by Wilson C. “Toby” Hayes and forensic analysis by Jeremy J. Bauer of Hayes+Associates, Inc., an expert witness and consulting firm in Corvallis, OR, helped a jury in a Los Angeles Criminal Courts courtroom find Cameron Brown guilty of first-degree murder for throwing his daughter from a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff nearly 15 years ago. The jury’s decision came at the end of the third trial in this matter.

By reconstructing a shooting incidentinvolving a deputy and the man he fatally shot as the latter attempted to flee a rural Oregon residence by car, a team from Hayes + Associates, Inc., established that the deputy’s action, the firing of four pistol shots at the vehicle, was justified, given that the deputy feared for his life.

Testimony from Wilson C. Hayes, Ph.D., president of Hayes + Associates, Inc., played an important role in a federal jury’s decision to award $6 million to a railroad worker from Ellensburg, WA, after US District Court Judge Thomas Leighton found his employer, the Columbia Basin Railroad Co., liable for the severe head injuries the worker sustained while at work after dark in a Sunnyside rail yard.