We provide products liability advice and litigation services in matters involving manufactured products, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Experience Highlights

Litigation – We represent clients in both state and federal courts in North Carolina, South Carolina and other states, in claims involving wrongful death, bodily injury, property damage, business interruption and other economic losses. Our litigation experience includes multi-district litigation and mass tort litigation.

Advice and Counseling – We advise manufacturing clients on products liability issues such as appropriate warnings for products, appropriate language for instructions and operations manuals and recall and retrofit issues.

Appeals – We represent clients in appeals in state appellate courts and in the United States Courts of Appeals.

Experience

• Defended manufacturer of industrial machinery in mass tort litigation arising from an explosion at the West Pharmaceutical plant in Kinston, North Carolina, which completely destroyed the plant and caused six deaths and many serious burn injuries
• Represented manufacturers of prescription drugs, defending personal injury claims in state and federal courts in North Carolina and South Carolina and in multi-district litigation
• Defended manufacturers of medical devices and products such as hip prostheses, surgical staplers, sutures and latex gloves in state and federal courts in North Carolina and South Carolina and in multi-district litigation
• Represented the manufacturer of large ductile iron water pipes in a catastrophic bodily injury case
• Represented the manufacturer of a pressure vessel which leaked, resulting in contamination of a pharmaceutical product
• Defended the manufacturer of polyurethane foam used in seat cushions in the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Du Pont Hotel, which allegedly exacerbated the fire that resulted in mass tort claims

News

• David Allen Named Chair of NC State Bar Ethics Committee
  December 15, 2011
• U.S. News & World Report Names Parker Poe Top-Tier Law Firm for 2012
  Firm Ranked #1 in 33 Legal Areas
  November 1, 2011
• Three Parker Poe Attorneys Awarded Lawyer of the Year for 2012
  October 5, 2011
• Thirty-Seven Parker Poe Attorneys Named NC Super Lawyers for 2011
  January 25, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• David Allen Elected President of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
  June 22, 2009
• Curious About Curiae? NCADA Amicus Curiae Briefs
  April 9, 2008
• Parker Poe Attorney Elected to Bar Executive Committee
  December 19, 2006
• Parker Poe Attorneys Elected to North Carolina Bar Leadership
  December 13, 2006
• Product Warnings: Manufacturers Beware
  January 30, 2002

Case Studies

• Huge Victory for Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary