Products Liability | McGlinchey Stafford PLLC

McGlinchey's Products Liability team’s litigation experience ranges from single-plaintiff lawsuits to regional and national mass torts and class actions at both the trial and appellate levels.

Working in jurisdictions throughout the United States, we blend proficiency in technical subjects with extensive trial experience to achieve successful outcomes.

Our products liability team represents Global 500 manufacturers, distributors, and insurers in litigation involving:

Personal injury and death
Economic loss
Dangerous and defective products
Faulty design

We have obtained defense verdicts and favorable settlements in cases involving airbag design and function, automotive design (including electronic stability systems, glazing systems, post-collision fuel-fed fires, restraint systems, and electrical door locks), aviation accidents (fixed- and rotary-wing), chemical plant and refinery explosions, commercial truck and tractor accidents, heavy equipment (including construction, agricultural, container handling, mining, and other equipment), elevators and escalators, household appliances, hydraulic systems, industrial and manufacturing plants, industrial and marine engine failures, lead paint and other toxic substances, medical devices, motorcycle design, plumbing supplies, power turbines, and high voltage transmission control systems. We also represent automakers in litigation involving warranty, redhibition, and recall-related claims.

We take seriously our role as business advisor. In addition to counseling our clients through litigation, we take the long view on our clients’ businesses, evaluating exposure and advising on federal regulatory compliance, instruction manuals, technical training, warning labels, and other measures to minimize future liability threats.

Creative Lawyering Surmounts a Unique Challenge in Collision Trial
Where we started: Our client, a multinational automobile manufacturer, was sued by the family of a teenage girl who died in an accident involving a vehicle made by the manufacturer. Beyond the facts of the case – a rear-end collision and post-collision fire – the case was complicated by the fact that the girl was theMore
Quick and Complex Cross-Border Work Led to Successful Mediation
Where we started: Our client, a European manufacturer, faced personal injury and wrongful death litigation arising from an accident involving a large piece of container handling equipment at the Port of New Orleans. The client called the mobile phone of one of our product liability lawyers asking if we could help locate a forklift expert.More

Contact your McGlinchey Product Liability team for our latest insights about the following:

Autonomous vehicles and other technology changes. Our success representing clients in product liability cases rests on our ability to master relevant technologies and make them understandable to judges and juries. Our lawyers closely follow technology developments in our client’s industries in order to anticipate new legal and factual issues affecting the advice we provide to clients.

Data privacy and product liability. The intersection of data privacy and liability is one which the plaintiffs’ bar continuously seeks to exploit. Through our work with the Products Liability Advisory Counsel (PLAC), the Defense Research Institute, and other relevant organizations, our products liability lawyers monitor the latest trends in claims and arguments advanced by plaintiffs’ lawyers.

Firm Attorneys Defending Mercedes in Louisiana
Law360 reported on June 23, 2014, that plaintiffs in Dugas v. Mercedes-Benz USA LLC et al, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, “urged a Louisiana federal judge to certify a class action accusing Mercedes-Benz USA of making and selling allegedly defective engines in cars that risked consumers’ safety and requiredMore
In Re: FEMA Trailer Formaldehyde Products Liability Litigation (Joyce Sylva, et al v. Skyline Corporation), MDL No. 07-1873, USDC, Eastern District of Louisiana
Creative Lawyering Surmounts a Unique Challenge in Collision Trial
Where we started: Our client, a multinational automobile manufacturer, was sued by the family of a teenage girl who died in an accident involving a vehicle made by the manufacturer. Beyond the facts of the case – a rear-end collision and post-collision fire – the case was complicated by the fact that the girl was theMore
Defense of Big 3 auto manufacturer in multidistrict litigation arising out of allegedly defective speed control deactivation switch
Quick and Complex Cross-Border Work Led to Successful Mediation
Where we started: Our client, a European manufacturer, faced personal injury and wrongful death litigation arising from an accident involving a large piece of container handling equipment at the Port of New Orleans. The client called the mobile phone of one of our product liability lawyers asking if we could help locate a forklift expert.More

Personal Jurisdiction Update: If You Finished Law School Before 2011, You Might Need It!
Gary Hebert (New Orleans) will co-present a 1-hour Complex Litigation CLE for the New Orleans Bar Association on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, focusing on the changes that have happened in personal jurisdiction in the past 10 years.
Podcast: Redefining Personal Jurisdiction – SCOTUS rules on the Ford Cases
What does the U.S. Supreme Court's March 25 decision regarding personal jurisdiction in the Ford cases mean for litigants and litigation across the country?
Supreme Court Rejects Ford’s Narrow Reading of Personal Jurisdiction
In a much-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued on March 25, the Court unanimously rejected Ford Motor Company’s argument that it could not be subject to personal jurisdiction in products liability actions filed in the states where the plaintiffs resided and where the underlying accidents occurred.
McGlinchey Welcomes Litigator Marisa Roman to Boston Office
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that litigator Marisa Roman has joined its national Commercial Litigation practice group in the firm’s Boston office as an Associate.
Twenty McGlinchey Attorneys Named to Louisiana Super Lawyers 2021
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC is pleased to announce the inclusion of twenty attorneys in the firm’s Baton Rouge and New Orleans offices in the 2021 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers' “Rising Stars” list. These attorneys were recognized across ten practice areas spanning various business and corporate matters as well as litigation and appellate law.