PRACTICE AREAS PRODUCT LIABILITY
 

Our product liability attorneys focus on what we do best – obtaining the best result for our clients through jury trials, dispositive motions, or timely settlements. We have years of experience serving as national counsel for corporate clients, but are unencumbered by the size and accompanying overhead of a large law firm. Clients benefit from our nationwide, first-chair trial capacity and our cumulative knowledge of the products and industries we represent. Our national practice and product understanding eliminate the need for clients to train local defense attorneys on a case-by-case basis.

We enjoy a national reputation for trial and appellate practice and have defended manufacturers in state and federal courts in 48 of the 50 states. We have defeated every attempt to obtain punitive damages from our product liability clients, even though many of our cases have involved significant injuries and products subject to government complaints, recalls, or post-sale warnings.

Over two-thirds of our attorneys devote a significant portion of their practice to defending products in personal injury and property damage cases. Through our longstanding, national representation of Honeywell and Emerson, we have unmatched experience in accidents involving environmental controls and systems, including boilers, furnaces, water heaters, and other HVAC-related equipment. But our experience and national counsel practice extend far beyond that work. We have successfully defended scores of other manufacturers – such as General Electric, Graco, National Presto, Maytag, Tecumseh, and DeLaval – on dozens of products across the country. These diverse products include tractors, airplanes, boats, agricultural equipment, deep fryers, elevators, clothes dryers, high-pressure paint sprayers, space heaters, smoke detectors, alarm systems, dishwashers, food-processing equipment, capacitors, escalators, milking equipment, industrial sifters, feed wagons, tobacco, boat engines, shredding machines, bikes, and helicopters.

Our lawyers also have defended a variety of medical products and devices including breast implants, hormone therapy drugs, latex gloves, respiration/blood pressure monitors, sutures, anti-seizure medication, hyperactivity medication, handicap lifts, wheel chairs, and anesthesia machines for clients like C.R. Bard, Dow Chemical, General Electric Company, Johnson & Johnson, and MedMarc.

In addition, our lawyers have experience defending manufacturers, distributors, franchisors, and restaurants in various food and beverage claims and litigation. These cases have varied from exploding bottles and Poptarts to contamination in such things as baby formula, children's snack foods, restaurant salads and burgers.

 
Attorneys
·Bradley J. Ayers
·Wendy M. Canaday
·George W. Flynn
·Steve W. Gaskins
·Sharon M. Horozaniecki
·Thomas Klosowski
·Jeannine L. Lee
·Sonia Miller-Van Oort
·Jennifer F. Rosemark
·Scott M. Rusert
·Timothy R. Schupp
·Jonathan A. Strauss
·William J. Tipping
·Robert W. Vaccaro

Articles
· Carbon Monoxide Dangers and the Duty to Warn
· Wendy Canaday Authors Article on Alarm Companies' Sales Methods
· Wendy Canaday Authors Article on Employee Cell Phone Use and Driving
· Wendy Canaday Authors Article on VoIP Alarm System Warnings

Events
· Bradley J. Ayers and Andrea Kiehl to Present at the 18th Annual Product Liability Conference
· Tom Klosowski Presenting on Crisis Management at Nation's Restaurant News Food Safety Symposium
· Tom Klosowski to Present at the National Propane Gas Association’s 2007 Southeastern Convention & International Expo
· Tom Klosowski to Speak at the 58th Annual Southeastern Convention & Propane Expo

News
· Integrity of FGB Client's Product Confirmed in Arbitration Contest
· Jeannine Lee Again Among the Top 100 Women Super Lawyers
· Jeannine Lee Appointed Vice Chair of DRI Committee
· Litigation Counsel to Fortune 250
· Six Partners Named SuperLawyers for 2009
· Tim Schupp Admitted To American College of Trial Lawyers
· Timothy R. Schupp Wins Defense Verdict and Order For Costs In Product Manufacturing Case
· Wendy Canaday Named Partner

Opinions
· Avery v. Mapco Gas Products, Inc.
· Brand v. Holmes Group
· Gage v. Stanley Convergent Security Solutions
· Henningsen v. E. Iowa Propane
· Krull v. Honeywell, et al.
· Londono v. Honeywell International Inc.
· New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal v. Honeywell
· Phillips, et al. v. South Carolina State University
· St. Paul Mercury Ins. v. Honeywell, 2006 WL 2514008 (D. Md.)
· Turner v. Robertshaw, et al.

Seminar Materials
· An Update on Daubert and its Impact on the Minnesota Legal Landscape
· Influence Of The Restatement (Third) Of Torts On The Law
· Limiting Liability in Purchase Agreements
· Minnesota’s New Joint & Several Liability Statute
· Post-Sale Duty to Warn
· Product Liability Class Actions
· State Farm v. Campbell
· The Economic Loss Doctrine in Minnesota
· The National Tort Reform Movement
· What You (and Your Customers) Don't Know May Hurt You