In a twist of timing that will forever be remembered when I am absent from any event, the day after my younger daughter was born in January 2007, I left my then 3-year-old and my newborn to my wife and her mother-in-law and flew down to Los Angeles for the opening statements in a case called Mraz v. DaimlerChrysler one day later. Richard Mraz had suffered fatal head injuries when the 1992 Dodge Dakota pickup truck he had been driving at his work site ran him over after he ex