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Products Liability

Butler Rubin’s Products Liability team has both the business and litigation abilities and experience to effectively handle any products liability matter from early case assessment through trial to verdict.  For more than 30 years, we have regularly represented clients in products liability cases in jurisdictions across the country.  We’ve worked in a variety of roles, including acting as "National Coordinating Counsel," settlement counsel, and as part of the "front line" trial team.  Attorneys in our group have defended manufacturers and distributors in numerous federal and state courts, and have the skill to handle cases involving catastrophic injuries, mass recalls, and other complex issues.  Of special importance to many of our clients is our role in advising on litigation avoidance, as well as potential products liability exposure under current common law, statutory and regulatory schemes. 

Our experience litigating products liability disputes includes handling cases involving:

·        Asbestos

·        Chemicals

·        Electrical components

·        Industrial chemicals

·        Industrial machinery

·        Silica

·        Tires

·        Tobacco

Butler Rubin attorneys have a wide breadth of experience in a broad spectrum of products liability matters.

• As National Coordinating Counsel for manufacturers in mass tort cases, our lawyers oversee litigation, manage performance of local counsel, and supervise and assist local counsel throughout the United States in the defense and resolution of the underlying bodily injury suits.
• Acting as National Coordinating Counsel for a major tire manufacturer in the trial and resolution of cases across the country following a massive recall of its products.  Our lawyers selected, supervised and assisted regional and local counsel throughout the United States and Canada in the defense and resolution of products liability cases involving truck tires and rims.  In handling these cases, we not only were involved in discovery and trial preparation, but also coordinated and carried out a nationwide settlement program which included our attendance at numerous mediation conferences around the country.
Our lawyers oversaw a massive review and production of documents in response to U.S. Congressional investigations and hearings, a National Highway Traffic Safety Council investigation, claims by multiple state Attorneys General and a rash of lawsuits across the country stemming from client’s recall of over 14 million products.  They formulated the document review protocol and production strategy, as well as trained and supervised teams of attorneys and paralegals who carried it out.
We have represented numerous manufacturing and premises clients in asbestos and silica litigation in courts throughout the nation and have instituted programs to significantly reduce costs and future litigation.
Our lawyers have tried products liability cases in jurisdictions across the country.
Since 1997, we have represented Liggett Group Inc. and its affiliates in products liability and related litigation in Cook County over the health hazards and addictive nature of tobacco.  The firm has successfully represented the company in individual smoker, class action and health care reimbursement claims and is very familiar with federal preemption doctrines, assumption of the risk theories, and defenses to be utilized with intrinsically dangerous products.
Our lawyers have been continuously involved in asbestos litigation since 1984.  Clients represented have included U.S. Gypsum and manufacturers of pumps and other products, among others.