Overview
Maynard Nexsen’s Product Liability Group has vast experience representing companies in high-exposure product liability litigation. Our attorneys are knowledgeable and proactive with the unique substantive and procedural issues that confront product manufacturers, distributors, and sellers in state and federal courts in multiple jurisdictions.
The Firm has extensive experience defending a wide array of federal and state product liability claims. Our experience spans the entire spectrum of product liability defense, from selection of expert witnesses to successfully pursuing dispositive motions to taking cases to trial on the merits or obtaining favoring appellate rulings.
Maynard Nexsen’s Product Liability Group has defended companies and their products in the following areas:
- Agricultural/Farm Equipment
- Aircraft
- Asbestos
- Automotive carriers
- Automotive components, including transmissions, axles, brakes and cruise control devices
- Autonomous vehicles
- Aviation
- Blood products
- Breast implants
- Chemicals, including methylene diisocyanate and formaldehyde
- Class Actions
- Cochlear implants
- Construction/Building Products
- Contraceptive devices
- Cranes/Hoists
- Dental x-ray equipment
- Dialyzers
- Diet drugs
- Electrical components
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Industrial Equipment/Machinery
- Lasers
- Latex gloves
- Log skidders
- Maritime (boats and personal watercraft)
- Medical Devices
- Motorcycles
- Over-the-counter cold medications containing phenlypropanolamine
- Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences
- Recreational Products (ATVs, four wheelers, golf carts)
- Recreational Vehicles
- Rental trucks
- Rheumatoid arthritis therapy
- Technology and data
- Thimerosal-containing vaccines
- Tires
- Tobacco
- Trucks
Maynard Nexsen has strong relationships in the governmental and economic development sectors and can assist companies with their legislative and regulatory requirements as well as their litigation needs. Our attorneys have served as coordinating counsel and as local counsel for Fortune 500 companies and are well positioned to meet the specific needs of the client in either capacity.
