In his modest-sized law office in northeast Ocala, items displaying Bruce Kaster’s decades-long commitment to tire tread-separation litigation hang from the walls: framed newspaper articles, diplomas and a photograph of the tombstone inscription for the young victim of a fatal blown-tire accident.

Above his desk is mounted a large longhorn steer head, taken from the animal after which Kaster – an avid cattle rancher outside his law practice – has named his side pursuit, “Broken Horn Cattle Company.”

“It was just as cantankerous as I am,” he says affectionately of the animal.

It’s this quality of Kaster’s, combined with his steely determination to win justice for countless families victimized by blown-tire accidents, that has catapulted him into the national spotlight as a dogged plaintiff’s attorney willing to take on the powerful tire industry.

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