Porter & Korvick investigates cases arising from automobile and commercial vehicle accidents, pedestrian accidents, trucking safety violations, traffic signal malfunctions, roadside hazards, train derailments, aquatic facility drowning and spinal cord injuries, vessel and watercraft accidents, SCUBA deaths, elecrocutions, and industrial accidents.

Porter & Korvick represents clients in product liability cases against the manufacturers of automobiles, aircraft, watercraft, children's products, prescription drugs, genetically altered food supplements, and many other consumer products. This is a nationwide practice. The faulty design, manufacture, or testing of a product is rarely seen on the surface. These defects are often revealed only after a consumer suffers a catastrophe involving severe injury or death.

Mr. Porter and Mr. Korvick have challenged the design, manufacture and testing of gas tanks, seatbelts, seat backs, door latches, child car seats and cribs, conversion vans, as well as vehicle rollover propensity and side impact protection. Mr. Porter and Mr. Korvick have handled cases against manufactures including Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Mazda, Toyota, and others.

Mr. Porter is nationally recognized in the representation of victims burned in post-crash fires in cars, trucks and aircraft resulting from poor gas tank design, and in the area of ejection injuries due to faulty door latch design and testing. Mr. Porter and Mr. Korvick have spearheaded litigation against the automobile industry for the design of weak door latches. Porter & Korvick frequently consults with the most respected experts in the field of product design, manufacture, testing and product recall. The firm invests substantial resources to investigate and prosecute this type of liability case.

Porter&bsp;  Korvick represents clients worldwide in cases involving all types of airplane and helicopter crashes. The firm has experience in the investigation and prosecution of major airline crash cases. Porter & Korvick is familiar with the multiple investigations that must be initiated immediately to preserve evidence and flight data. The firm is also knowledgeable concerning the many legal issues involved in this type of complex litigation, including international treaties, jurisdiction, and choice of law.

Porter & Korvick has access to highly experienced and qualified national and international experts on airplane and helicopter design, propeller and rotor blade design, metallurgical fatigue and failure, turbine engine design, flight control design, cockpit and instrument design, flight systems, emergency procedures, maintenance procedures, air traffic control and pilot errors.

Porter & Korvick has successfully concluded many significant medical negligence cases, including serious injuries and deaths caused by substandard care by various medical specialists and hospitals. Some recent examples include deaths related to failure to diagnose placental cancer, failure to properly monitor a child's brain shunt, surgical errors during bypass surgery and hemorrhoid surgery, and inadequate respiratory critical care for a pneumonia patient.