Representative Experience - Products Liability
Class actions
- Represented manufacturers and distributors in various product liability actions and class actions
Complex litigation
- National, regional and local counsel for clients named in asbestos litigation
- Defended one of the nation’s largest heavy equipment manufacturers in a large excavator fire claim involving complex issues of fire origin and cause and electrical engineering.
Construction law
- Defended a Fortune 500 company against hundreds of product liability cases filed by construction workers who alleged that noise emitted by heavy equipment caused hearing loss.
- Assisted a public service district in pursuing a major litigation regarding defective design.
- Defended glass manufacturer in products liability case involving claims that glass used in construction was unsafe, hazardous, unreasonably dangerous and defective
Products liability
- Defended automobile and all terrain vehicle manufacturers, distributors and retailers in a variety of product liability cases
- Defended mass products liability case for equipment manufacturer
- National, regional and local counsel for clients named in asbestos litigation
- Regional and local counsel for clients named in benzene litigation
- Defended one of the nation’s largest heavy equipment manufacturers in a large excavator fire claim involving complex issues of fire origin and cause and electrical engineering.
- Defended a Fortune 500 company against hundreds of product liability cases filed by construction workers who alleged that noise emitted by heavy equipment caused hearing loss.
- Assisted a public service district in pursuing a major litigation regarding defective design.
- Defended a variety of companies in asbestos, benzene and silica litigation with theories ranging from products liability and negligence to premises liability
- Represented respiratory protection manufacturer in silica exposure claims
- Serve as trial counsel for defense in welding fume litigation alleging a variety of complaints including neurological illnesses such as ALS, arc welder’s pneumoconiosis and Parkinsonism
- Represented manufacturers and distributors in various product liability actions and class actions
- Represented employer in silica exposure claims
- Represented corporate clients in product liability claims
- Defended manufacturers, distributors and contractors in asbestos litigation involving products liability claims
- Assist in the defense of a manufacturer of underground mining machinery against third-party claims in Kentucky
- Defended manufacturers against product liability claims relating to automobiles and filing cabinets
- Defended glass manufacturer in products liability case involving claims that glass used in construction was unsafe, hazardous, unreasonably dangerous and defective
Public utility law
- Assisted a public service district in pursuing a major litigation regarding defective design.
Toxic and mass torts
- Defended mass products liability case for equipment manufacturer
- National, regional and local counsel for clients named in asbestos litigation
- Regional and local counsel for clients named in benzene litigation
- Defended a variety of companies in asbestos, benzene and silica litigation with theories ranging from products liability and negligence to premises liability
- Represented respiratory protection manufacturer in silica exposure claims
- Serve as trial counsel for defense in welding fume litigation alleging a variety of complaints including neurological illnesses such as ALS, arc welder’s pneumoconiosis and Parkinsonism
- Represented employer in silica exposure claims
- Defended manufacturers, distributors and contractors in asbestos litigation involving products liability claims