Testimony from Wilson C. Hayes, Ph.D., president of Hayes + Associates, Inc., played an important role in a federal jury’s decision to award $6 million to a railroad worker from Ellensburg, WA, after US District Court Judge Thomas Leighton found his employer, the Columbia Basin Railroad Co., liable for the severe head injuries the worker sustained while at work after dark in a Sunnyside rail yard.

In a decision handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on January 16, 2013, an $85 million jury verdict over patent infringement against Arthrex, Inc., overturned in June 2011 by a lower court in Oregon, was reinstated in favor of Smith & Nephew, Inc.

Research conducted by a team at Hayes + Associates, Inc. , a Corvallis, OR, consulting firm specializing in injury biomechanics, was instrumental in the return of a guilty verdict by a Washington state jury in the October 2012 trial of a 29-year-old woman accused of killing her boyfriend’s three-year-old daughter.