TEXAS – Matthews & Associates have been retained by the husband of a 28-year-old Texas woman who was killed in May 2006 when a violent tire blowout caused a truck to spin and flip. The woman, a mother of three, was a passenger in a 2000 Mazda pickup when one of its tires, made by Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., malfunctioned. The
tread separated from the tire in the blowout and precipitated the tragedy.

Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., is an Ohio corporation, though the tire in question is believed to have been manufactured in Texarkana, Ark., after being designed and tested in Pearsall, Texas.

Matthews & Associates filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Among the multiple charges: “[T]he tire contained unreasonably dangerous design defects and was not reasonably safe, (and) was insufficiently tested.”