He is a veteran automotive engineer having over 30 years of experience with General Motors and a private engineering firm, where he held engineering positions relating to manufacturing quality control, product problem resolution and analysis, and litigation support. Mr. Rogulsky is recognized for his skills and experience in mechanical analysis of damaged components. He is a veteran trial and deposition witness in matters relating to the performance of components of motor vehicle suspension, steering, brake and powertrain systems. He has applied his fracture analysis skills on numerous occasions to successfully determine whether a component failure caused an accident or whether the component fractured or was otherwise damaged as a result of the accident. He has studied accident reconstruction with the Northwestern University Traffic Institute.
Juries are more generous to plaintiffs than are judges in the amounts of damage awards.
Judges in bench trials, on the other hand, are more likely to find for plaintiffs than are juries. At least so says the Bureau of Justice Statistics in a survey released covering state court civil trial verdicts in the nation s seventy-five largest counties during the 1996 calendar year. Juries found for plaintiffs 49 percent of the time in all civil trials. Judges found for plaintiffs 62 percent of the time. Other product liability cases made up approximately an additional 3 percent of the total.