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How lawyers swerved Yamaha away from $15M products liability suit

A WaveRunner personal watercraft sat at the heart of a products liability lawsuit against Yamaha.

By Raychel Lean | September 09, 2019 at 05:00 AM

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The defense team wheeled a WaveRunner into the courtroom, allowing jurors to sit on it during deliberations. (ALM Archives)

A team of Miami lawyers steered Yamaha Motor Corp. USA and its Japanese parent company away from claims that insufficient warnings on its WaveRunner watercraft contributed to the injuries of a teenage rider who fell off in Biscayne Bay, Fla.

The plaintiff’s attorneys asked the jury for between $13 million and $15 million in damages, but they found Yamaha owed nothing.

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