Gallagher & Kennedy handles product liability claims for a wide range of manufacturers and distributors on a local, regional, and national basis. Our attorneys participate at all levels in this area, including:

• Pre-claim counseling and strategy
• Review and advice regarding product warnings and instructions
• Discovery
• Selection of expert witnesses
• Trial and appellate proceedings

The collective experience of the firm’s product liability attorneys extends to all types of consumer products, automobiles and other motorized vehicles and their component parts, aircraft (both fixed wing and rotorcraft), medical devices and implants, blood products, and infrastructure products such as utility generation equipment and cable and wire.

The following are representative of the services provided by Gallagher & Kennedy in product liability litigation:

• We are the national coordinating counsel for a Fortune 200 mining and manufacturing concern that is embroiled in asbestos litigation in numerous states.
  
• We represented a leading medical university, and several of its physicians, in scores of lawsuits brought against numerous pharmaceutical companies and medical providers by persons with hemophilia who contracted HIV through the infusion of blood products, including Factor concentrates.
  
• The firm defended an international chemical company in multiple class action suits seeking to recover damages for personal injuries and property devaluation, and to impose medical monitoring, allegedly arising out of groundwater contamination caused by TCE.