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.

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 multi-district 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

McGlinchey Promotes New Members, Counsel in 2021
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to congratulate the attorneys who have been promoted to Members (Partners) and Counsel within the firm as of January 1, 2021.
53 McGlinchey Practice Areas recognized in U.S. News – Best Lawyers® 2021 “Best Law Firms”
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC is pleased to announce three national practice group rankings and 50 metropolitan practice area rankings (up from 47 in 2020) in the 2021 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.” The firm received a National Tier 2 ranking in Financial Services Regulation Law, as well as National Tier 3More
Personal Jurisdiction Part 3 – Oral Arguments in the Ford Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments on two potentially groundbreaking personal jurisdiction cases known as “the Ford cases.” In this third episode from our series on Personal Jurisdiction, Rasch Brown, Gary Hebert, and Brian LeCompte (New Orleans) discuss their take on what they heard from the litigants and from the bench.
Five McGlinchey Attorneys named 2020“Top Lawyers” by New Orleans Magazine
Congratulations to our five attorneys who have been named to New Orleans Magazine‘s 2020 “Top Lawyers” list: Stephen P. Beiser, Labor and Employment Law Magdalen Blessey Bickford, Labor and Employment Law Rudy J. Cerone, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law Katherine Conklin, Employee Benefits Law Colvin G. “Woody” Norwood, Jr., Product Liability LitigationMore
McGlinchey’s Rasch Brown named Fellow of American College of Trial Lawyers
McGlinchey Stafford proudly announces that Member Francis “Rasch” Brown, III (New Orleans) has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was installed as a Fellow during the College’s virtual 70th Annual Meeting on September 25. Rasch is one of only four Louisiana attorneys inducted of the 91 national inductees.