Products Liability

Turner Padget attorneys have in-depth experience in representing manufacturers, distributors, chemical companies, retailers and medical device companies in a wide variety of products litigation.  We serve as national and local defense counsel handling mass torts and class actions for a broad spectrum of clients.

Our product experience includes the following:

Transportation 

• Turner Padget attorneys represent national and international automobile, all-terrain vehicle, commercial truck and boat manufacturers as well as component part manufacturers for each on a statewide and regional basis.

Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices

• Products Liability attorneys represent clients in pharmaceutical and medical devices litigation involving contraceptives, anti-depressants, hormone replacement therapy, contacts and general surgical devices.

Toxins and Chemicals

• Turner Padget’s practice includes individual and class action litigation arising under state and federal laws including RCRA, CERCLA, CAA, CWA and state underground storage.  Our experience in toxins and chemical liability includes personal injury, medical monitoring, property damage and clean-up costs.

Trucks

• The Products Liability practice works in concert with our Trucking and Transportation practice on products liability cases.

Industrial Equipment 

• We serve as counsel to manufacturing corporations in litigation involving their equipment, including machinery, cranes and forklifts.

Building Material 

• We have represented numerous contractors, owners, developers, architects, subcontractors, bonding companies, construction management, manufacturers, suppliers and insurers on cases alleging inadequate design or construction.  Our Construction and Environmental Litigation Practice works with our Products Liability group in building material litigation.

Turner Padget Products liability attorneys are experienced courtroom attorneys.  They take cases from discovery to trial and, if necessary, to appeal in all state and Federal courts. In addition, since product liability cases often involve the smallest of evidence coupled with masses of documentation, the firm’s Product Liability attorneys utilize the latest technologies in litigation support as a foundation for handling complex litigation on a daily basis. 

We scan, organize, code and save critical litigation data that can be retrieved in seconds from databases, allowing electronic data such as word-processed documents, emails, notes, programs and others to be easily accessed.

Attorneys

Shareholders
Elbert S. Dorn, Products Liability Practice Leader, Columbia
John K. Blincow, Charleston
J. Kenneth Carter, Columbia
John E. Cuttino, Columbia
Eric K. Englebardt, Greenville
J. René Josey, Florence
Arthur E. Justice, Florence

William E. Lawson, Myrtle Beach
Curtis L. Ott, Columbia
Steven W. Ouzts, Columbia

Jimmy C. Powell, Jr., Myrtle Beach

M. Scott Taylor, Florence
Charles F. Turner, Greenville
D. Andrew Williams, Columbia
John S. Wilkerson, III , Charleston

Associates
D. Michael Freeman, Myrtle Beach

Nicholas W. Gladd, Columbia

David C. Marshall, Columbia
Christopher H. Pearce, Myrtle Beach

Carmelo B. Sammataro, Columbia

Special Counsel

Thomas M. Kennaday, Columbia