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Product Liability

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Thompson Coburn's product liability attorneys have handled dozens of major tort and product liability cases through jury trial. Our group has broad and deep experience trying product liability cases nationally and has even handled cases beyond the continental United States.

We frequently act as national counsel in litigation involving various types of products, including coordinating counsel in multidistrict litigation.  We successfully handled a record-setting trial extending over years before the same jury and a trial involving billions of dollars in claims. Our attorneys have argued cases in venues throughout the country, from Montana to Texas and New Jersey to Guam. Of course, we also handle many cases locally, including in famously plaintiff-friendly venues Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois.

We have defended claims across a wide variety of fields and industries, including all-terrain vehicles, bio-mechanics/human factors, chemicals, construction equipment, electrical components, fabrics, flammable vapors, forklifts, industrial equipment, medical devices, mining equipment, personal watercraft, pesticides, petroleum additives, power tools, seat belts, shock absorbers and tires.

Richard A. Mueller

314.552.6084

Dudley W. Von Holt

314.552.6115
  • We represented a Fortune 500 equipment manufacturer in thousands of repetitive motion cases nationwide. We won the first two jury trials and favorably resolved the remainder.
  • Our practice group successfully defended our client in the longest jury trial in American history, a 65-plaintiff product liability/toxic tort case that was tried in notoriously plaintiff-friendly St. Clair County, Ill.
  • Our firm won dismissal of claims of well owners alleging potential but not actual contamination from gasoline additive MTBE.