Product Liability

Experience with Product Defect Claims and Recalls

Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial's Product Liability Litigation Practice Group serves domestic and international manufacturers, designers, distributors and vendors of all types of products and equipment. Named "Product Liability Department of the Year - Midsize Firm" by ALM's Daily Business Review, nearly half of the firm’s lawyers represent clients in product liability matters.

WWHGD has a long and storied history of successfully defending product liability claims. In fact, our lawyers were involved in many of the cases establishing key defenses to strict liability in Georgia. Our lawyers have been recognized by Best Lawyers® and Super Lawyers for their product liability experience and several are members of the prestigious Product Liability Advisory Council.

Representative Product Liability Defense Cases 

For the past 25 years, we have served as counsel in highly publicized cases involving automobile fuel tank design, SUV rollover events, weight-loss drugs, toxic shock syndrome, industrial machine design, tires, electrical equipment and consumer and household products.  We have handled a number of product liability cases involving: 

Consumer Products: Aerosol Paint, Automotive Component Parts, Carbon Monoxide Detectors, Chemicals, Electrical Service Panels, Food Products, Gas Cans, Generators, Non-Powder Firearms, Plumbing Piping Pool Chemicals, Residential Appliances, Tires

Juvenile Products: Infant/Baby Carrier, Infant/Baby Car Seats

Medical Products / Devices: Balloon Catheters, Catheters, Coronary Artery Stents, Endometrial Ablation Devices, Estradiol Implants, Greenfield Vena Cava Filters, Heart Valves, Hip Implants, Knee Implants, Neurovascular Coils, Pharmaceuticals, Stents, Surgical Devices, Vaccines, Weight-Loss Drugs

Transportation Systems:  Airplanes, Ambulances, Aerial Lifts, ATV, Automobiles, Boats, Bucket Trucks, Bulldozers, Buses, Cranes, Cotton Pickers, Excavators, Forklifts, Golf Carts, Industrial Bailers, RVs, Skid Steer Loader, Tractors, Trucks

Heavy Equipment/Machinery: Aircraft Engines, Agricultural Equipment, Industrial Machinery, Industrial Manufacturing Equipment, Stone Crusher, Post Hole Digger, Material Handling Equipment, 

For more information about product safety, we encourage you to visit: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission