Robert Harrison (Partner- San Diego, CA) and Daniel Hurwitz (Of Counsel-Los Angeles, CA), with assistance from Hannah Lee (Of Counsel-Los Angeles, CA), secured a defense verdict in the Van Nuys division of the Los Angeles Superior Court for an ecommerce website. The plaintiff was a Los Angeles firefighter who sustained an eye injury while wearing a brand of lensless eye shields while playing an on-duty game of handball against fellow firefighters. The firm’s client provided logistical support to the defunct manufacturer of the eye shields. The co-defendant at trial was a graphic design firm that provided branding and logos, and designed the layout for the warning labels on the product packaging per the eye shield company’s instructions. The plaintiff had demanded $2 million globally from the firm’s client and co-defendants before trial, and asked the jury to award over $3.5 million in non-economic damages, based on a partial tear to the sphincter in the plaintiff’s iris that left him moderately more light-sensitive, but, after a few weeks of healing, did not otherwise compromise his vision. The jury, after a day and a half of deliberation, found that the product did not satisfy the consumer expectation test for strict liability, and that neither defendant had failed to warn about any otherwise non-obvious hazards that may have been present with the product.