Product Liability & Complex Tort

• Self-insured product manufacturers with exposure to complex product liability claims
• Businesses with a complex contract / commercial warranty disputes
• Product manufacturers in the health care sector with litigation involving pharmaceuticals and biologic drug products, medical devices, surgical materials, and dental materials, among others
• Self-insured product manufacturers with exposure to catastrophic personal injury claims

• Clinical trials liability claims
• Consumer class actions
• Product liability litigation
• Product liability risk management
• Regulatory compliance training
• Toxic exposures
• Complex and high damage exposure personal injury litigation
• Product-related contract/commercial warranty disputes

Our Product Liability & Complex Tort Practice is closely aligned with the firm’s Consumer Product Safety Practice. Based in our DC office, the Consumer Product Safety Practice provides counsel on compliance issues and works with our litigators to create the strongest product liability defense strategies. Team members include a former chief of staff of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and others with extensive experience before the commission.

• Closely aligned with firm's FDA Regulatory Practice; with attorneys in our Washington, DC and New York offices
• Federal and state policy services in collaboration with our government relations affiliate, ML Strategies, LLC
• Counsel manufacturers and distributors of food products, dietary supplements, and other FDA-regulated products such as OTC drugs and medical devices regarding applicable federal and state requirements

Our attorneys have acted as national and regional coordinating counsel in various multistate litigations. We've worked closely with clients to develop appropriate strategies for efficiently dealing with multistate litigation. We focus on establishing and implementing an agreed-upon defense strategy based on the client's ultimate business goals. Our attorneys also consolidate litigation and manage communications with the client's business personnel to minimize disruptions associated with handling ongoing litigation in multiple forums.