{"id":1509,"date":"2024-06-25T20:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cases-progress-against-sig-sauer-for-accidental-discharges-in-federal-court\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T20:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:39:51","slug":"cases-progress-against-sig-sauer-for-accidental-discharges-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cases-progress-against-sig-sauer-for-accidental-discharges-in-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Cases Progress Against Sig Sauer For Accidental Discharges In Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Separate\u00a0claims against Sig Sauer\u2019s P320 semi-automatic pistol unintentionally firing\u00a0have passed critical thresholds in federal courts over the last week\u00a0as a Georgia plaintiff was awarded $2.35 million by a jury and a police officer in\u00a0Puerto Rico\u00a0survived the gun manufacturer\u2019s motion for summary judgment.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, Robert Lang <a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/185717\/2021.10.11-Exhibit-B-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sued<\/a>\u00a0Sig Sauer after he was seriously injured in 2018, when his holstered P320 handgun allegedly discharged without touching the trigger. On June 20, a\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">jury\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">in<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia returned\u00a0the $2.35 million\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/185717\/gov.uscourts.gand_.295572.131.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">verdict<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0in Lang\u2019s favor, finding the manufacturer liable for selling a defective pistol without a tabbed trigger for safety, along with negligent failure to warn.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate\u00a0claims against Sig Sauer\u2019s P320 semi-automatic pistol unintentionally firing\u00a0have passed critical thresholds in federal courts over the last week\u00a0as a Georgia plaintiff was awarded $2.35 million by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2144,1080,143,2145,554,2141,2143,2142],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-accidental","tag-cases","tag-court","tag-discharges","tag-federal","tag-progress","tag-sauer","tag-sig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}