Practice Areas
Serious personal injury and death arise in an unlimited variety of ways. Most common are motor vehicle accidents victimizing drivers, passengers, riders on motorcycles and bicycles, and pedestrians. Additionally, falls and other mishaps occurring on the premises of stores, businesses, and public buildings, in the homes or apartments of another, when caused by negligence on the part of the party responsible for the premises often produce serious injury or death. Other areas where our legal expertise can be relied upon to achieve just compensation for serious injury or death are dog attacks and instances of medical malpractice.
Because of his unique qualifications, John E. Sweeney represents aviation accident victims with unexcelled education, training, experience and record of success. As a graduate aeronautical engineer, an experienced aerodynamicist with Lockheed, and as a multi-engine rated pilot, Sweeney has been sought out by lawyers across the country whose clients have suffered disaster in aviation accidents, and by the heirs of victims who have found their way to Sweeney through news reportage, mutual acquaintances, or through the acquaintance with the many aviation experts employed by Sweeney over the decades. When expedient to do so, Sweeney has flown his twin engine Cessna Skymaster across the country to meet with clients, local counsel, witnesses and experts, in his lengthy aviation accident specialty, enabling him to get to the heart of the most complex cases and accident scenes.
The Sweeney & Associates law firm is perhaps best known for its groundbreaking work and advancement of the law governing the conduct of businesses, small and large, with respect to what they are permitted to do in dealing with their competitors. The distinction between fair competition on the one hand, and unlawful, predatory practices masked as mere competition on the other, can be missed by even the most vigilant CEO. More important, lack of competent counsel from the very outset of concern over a competitor's action, or commencement of one's own program, can be costly in the best case, and catastrophic in the worst. Sweeney & Associates can guide a business through dangerous waters, and can litigate such matters with the confidence grounded upon hard earned success through the years.
Frequently, persons are injured because of a defect in the design or manufacture of a product. We have extensive experience in this very costly area of injury litigation. Our lengthy list of product defect cases causing catastrophic injury and death includes defective automobile transmissions, all-terrain vehicles, boats, aircraft avionics, elevators, toxic cleaning products, and many products of every description causing harm in countless ways. We have long standing relationships with expert analysts in virtually every product field.
Occasionally insurance companies put their financial interests ahead of your interests as the insured. When that happens, you need a law firm that has the experience, judgment and power to protect your rights, and gain compensation for you where your rights have been violated. It sounds simple. When you buy insurance you are paying money for a promise from the insurance company to protect you in times of need, such as when you suffer a loss of property through fire, flood, and even as a result of your own carelessness. The law imposes a serious and heavy burden upon the insurance company to deal with you fairly and in good faith. If the insurance company acts in a fashion that works to deny your claim unreasonably, we can help protect you from this “bad faith,” and gain full compensation for your loss. We will answer all of your questions concerning the insurance company’s handling of any claim you may have under the policy protection for which you have paid.
