11-Year Old Trevor Dennis Goes To Trial Against The Coleman Company
8-year old Trevor Dennis was just like most kids his age. He enjoyed all the things kids normally do, especially camping. All that changed for Trevor on December 5, 2005 when he was on one of many such camping trips with his parents. On that fateful day, Trevor went to bed in the family’s camper trailer which was heated by a Model 5053 ProCat PerfecTemp Coleman propane heater. Sometime during that evening, the heater malfunctioned which caused the camper to burst into flames trapping Trevor inside. Experts for John Bisnar of BISNAR | CHASE, a California personal injury law firm specializing in defective product cases, agree that the Coleman Company manufactured this particular model propane heater using a faulty design, sub-par critical parts and inadequate qualify controls to prevent this type of foreseeable injury to a child.
Taking on a corporation the size of The Coleman Company is no easy task. Most victims just like Trevor don’t have the resources to ask The Coleman Company to do the right thing. The Coleman Company has denied that their design was defective and that they are not responsible for the severe burns to Trevor. They have refused to do the right thing in this case. Fortunately, our justice system provides a system to resolve disputes for anyone injured as a result of the negligence of another. On Monday, November 2, 2009 in Orange County Superior Court, Judge William Monroe will empower a jury to hear little Trevor’s case against The Coleman Company. As they say, “Everyone gets their day in Court.” And that is no different for now 11-year old Trevor Dennis.
On Monday, Trevor will get his chance to stand up to The Coleman Company and show a jury all of the evidence why this model of propane heater was defective and should not have been sold to the unsuspecting public. The jury will get to see first hand the severe burns on Trevor’s body as a result of the way that propane heater was manufactured. I am sure plenty of expert evidence will be presented to show the jury why The Coleman Company should have reasonably known severe harm could be the result of the normal use of their product. Although I have not seen the evidence and don’t know the outcome, I know that once the Dennis family is able to put forth all of their facts to a jury of reasonable citizens and hold the giant Coleman Company responsible, one thing is for certain. 11-year old Trevor Dennis will have made a stand against a giant manufacturer of consumer goods just so they would do the right thing.
