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Before going after Ford and the airbag manufacturer, you should think about pursuing claims against the negligent driver and your own insurance carrier. Did the negligent driver stop? Did you exchange information? If so, you could likely pursue a personal injury claim against him/her. If the negligent driver did not stop, and you have no way of locating him/her, you should pursue a claim under your UM coverage. The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that unidentified accident-causing drivers are deemed uninsured by law. Therefore, your insurance carrier must treat that accident as if the other driver was uninsured. This triggers UM coverage you have, if any. You should contact a personal injury attorney immediately to explore your options before pursuing Ford and the airbag manufacturer.

Obviously, they can because they did. If they have no evidence for probable cause, they should not have arrested him. If all witnesses told the police he did not hit you, then they had no probable cause.

There are 2 issues to consider here: Legally you may have a claim against the salon, however practically my sense is that you will have a very difficult time finding a lawyer to represent you for that claim. Cases against nail salons are quite difficult (we have handled a number of them in the past), since there are always questions of causation, and for a lawyer to justify the time/effort/expense of handling this type of case the injury (and therefore the potential recovery) needs to be quite significant. Fortunately for you, based on the question you submitted, it does not sound as if your injury is overly significant (my thoughts on this would be different if, for example, your infection had resulted in an amputation of your finger and/or a portion of your hand).