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Product Liability & Toxic Torts | USA

Virginia

This chapter encompasses legal claims that allow an injured party to recover financial compensation from the manufacturer or seller of a product. This can include faulty brakes, contaminated food and medicine lacking appropriate label warnings. Law firms advise manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers and others who make the product available to the public. It also covers toxic tort, relating to the exposure to chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs or occupational hazards. Most pharmaceutical claims are mass tort cases because drugs are consumed by thousands of people. Occupational toxic tort cases occur where industrial and other works have been exposed to toxic chemicals. Most of the law in this area has traditionally arisen from asbestos exposure. The chapter also recognizes firms who represent plaintiffs in products liability litigation.

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Band 1

  1. McGuireWoods LLP
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    McGuireWoods LLP
    Product Liability & Toxic Torts
    2024 | Band 1 | 5 Years Ranked
    McGuireWoods is a leading firm with an impressive track record in high-stakes product liability and toxic tort matters. It is especially well known for its representation of automobile manufacturers in wrongful death and severe injury claims. The team is experienced in handling class actions and multidistrict litigation. The firm has broad defense capabilities, spanning asbestos claims to chemical exposure.
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Band 2

  1. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
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    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
    Product Liability & Toxic Torts
    2024 | Band 2 | 2 Years Ranked
    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough has an impressive team of expert product liability trial lawyers. It is regarded highly for its defense of some of the country's most significant automotive businesses. The firm offers deep expertise in wrongful death and personal injury claims. The department's industry expertise also encompasses heavy equipment, drugs and medical devices, and consumer and chemical products.
  2. Moran Reeves & Conn PC
    Product Liability & Toxic Torts
    2024 | Band 2
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Band 3

  1. Butler Snow LLP
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    Butler Snow LLP
    Product Liability & Toxic Torts
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Butler Snow is noted for representing product and medical device manufacturers in a wide range of product liability issues. The firm has expertise in large-scale multidistrict litigation, as well as consumer class actions and related fraud claims. The department is also noted for its related environmental expertise.
  2. Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
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    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
    Product Liability & Toxic Torts
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Hunton Andrews Kurth represented Atotech USA, a specialty chemical manufacturer, in its defense of a putative class action in federal district court in Delaware, in which the residents of a town allege that their water supply has been contaminated with PFAS. The plaintiffs claim that Atotech products are among the PFAS materials that have been detected in area groundwater.