The members of Carr Allison’s Product Liability Practice Group bring together a wealth of experience representing a diverse array of product manufacturers, distributers and retailers. In addition, each of the lawyers in the Practice Group also has extensive experience in many of the other practice areas in which the firm concentrates in order to ensure the greatest possible diversity of experience.

The Product Liability Practice Group realizes that technological innovations have a significant impact on the legal needs of our clients. It is the goal of the Product Liability Group to stay at the forefront of new innovations to better serve our clients as they attempt to meet the challenges of an evolving marketplace.

Every member of the group strives to ensure that our clients receive efficient, cost-effective service grounded in a pragmatic approach to litigation. Alternative dispute resolution is explored in every case unless the client directs otherwise. Nonetheless, the Product Liability Group’s members have learned through their experience that not every case can be resolved outside of the courtroom. The Group’s members pride themselves on their extensive trial experience and superior results.

The Product Liability Practice Group has experience in all areas of product liability law. The Group represents a wide variety of clients with products in numerous areas, including industrial equipment, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, construction equipment and chemicals. The Group’s members have tried numerous complex cases involving construction equipment and heavy machinery, including cranes, scaffolding, hoists and lifts. Over the years, they have developed extensive experience in representing clients in mass tort claims.

The Product Liability Practice Group’s accumulated experience enables it to provide the wide range of legal services needed by manufacturers, distributors and sellers of products. As a full-service team, our attorneys strive to meet their clients’ routine needs as well as counsel and represent them in sophisticated, complex matters and litigation.

Representative Products Defended by Carr Allison include:

  • Adhesives
  • Adult Tricycle
  • Aerial Stringing Equipment for Power Lines
  • Agricultural equipment
  • Air Brakes
  • Air Conditioners
  • Apparel
  • Appliances
  • Asbestos
  • Automated Storage and Picking Systems
  • Automobile Tires
  • Automobiles
  • Backhoes
  • Band saws
  • Bending Machine
  • Benzene
  • Brake Manufacturers
  • Bridge Lighting System
  • Cab Guards/Cab Racks
  • Carpeting Products
  • Cement Mixers
  • Chain saws
  • Chemicals
  • Chinese Drywall
  • Cleaning agents
  • Clothes Dryers
  • Coffee Makers
  • Commercial Dumpsters
  • Commercial Trash Compactors
  • Commercial Boiler
  • Consumer products
  • Consumer Supplements
  • Conveyor Systems
  • Crane
  • Dishwashing Machines
  • Double Mast Cranes
  • Durable medical equipment
  • Dynamic Picking Systems
  • Electric Power Lines
  • Electrical equipment
  • Elevators
  • Equipment/Safety Harness
  • Fertilizers
  • Firearms
  • Food
  • Football Helmets
  • Front end loaders
  • Gas Propane Dispensing and Delivery Systems
  • Gas/oil storage tank monitoring systems
  • Hair Dye
  • Heating Systems
  • Heavy equipment
  • Herbicides and pesticides
  • Hoyer lift
  • HVAC Equipment
  • Industrial equipment and machinery
  • Industrial Furnace
  • Ladders
  • Lifting equipment
  • Man lifts
  • Medical devices
  • Microwaves
  • Mining supplies
  • Mobile Home Products
  • Motorcycle helmets
  • Motorcycles
  • Nail Guns
  • Off-Road Vehicles
  • Overhead and Gantry Cranes
  • Overhead Bridge Crane
  • Overhead Crane
  • Paints
  • Paper Mill Equipment
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Plastic Cups
  • Plumbing Connector Hoses
  • Plumbing equipment
  • Power Grapple
  • Power Wrench
  • Presses
  • Radial arm and table saws
  • Recreational vehicles
  • Roto Former
  • Saunas
  • Scaffolding
  • Steam Systems
  • Stump Grinder
  • Teapots
  • Televisions
  • Textiles
  • Tire and rubber products
  • Toasters
  • Tools
  • Tote Cranes
  • Toys
  • Trailer Manufacturers
  • Tree Stands
  • Water heaters
  • Wood Pallet Manufacturing

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