Our Product Liability and Product Safety Group has unrivalled experience in large-scale, multi-party product liability litigation across a wide range of areas including tobacco, telecommunications, blood products, pharmaceuticals, food and drink. We have acted in the defence of the largest product liability actions to have thus far come before the Irish Courts.
The Group draws on unique expertise from throughout the firm and incorporates lawyers from its Life Sciences Group and lawyers specialising in litigation, intellectual property, environmental, regulatory and healthcare law. It offers clients in all sectors comprehensive assistance in fulfilling their business objectives.
We provide comprehensive and strategic product liability advice, both at the pre-litigation stage and in non-contentious cases, We advise clients in relation to risk management, product recall, crisis management strategies, specialist insurance advice and other related issues. Managing complex product liability litigation requires an overall strategy that is sensitive not only to the litigation environment and objectives but also to the commercial, regulatory and public relations concerns that inevitably accompany such situations.
Responding quickly and effectively to any potential product safety issue, including where necessary the implementation of recall procedures, is part of the unique service we offer our clients. Such situations can be potentially expensive, unpredictable, complex and often very press-sensitive. Protecting our clients' reputation and financial interests is our first concern.
We have considerable experience in advising clients involved in the development, production, importation, distribution and sale of their products. Our lawyers strategically manage contentious issues from the pre-litigation stage onwards and have unrivalled expertise in the specific sensitivities and issues which are faced when dealing with product liability litigation and product safety, withdrawal and recall.
We have an unmatched track record in advising our clients on a full spectrum of products, to include all the products set out below:
- Food & drink products (including GMOs)
- Chemicals
- Tobacco
- Medicinal Products
- Medical Devices
- Blood products
- Mechanical devices
- Building Products
- Medical Devices
- Household goods and furniture
- Cosmetics
- Mobile telephones
- Domestic appliances
- Pressure Vehicles
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Textiles
- Glass
- Footwear
- Sports/training/gym equipment
- Wood
- Animal Foodstuffs
- Gas & Electrical equipment
- Toys
- Information Technology
- Motor Vehicles
- Defence of large scale, complex litigation involving large cohorts of claimants in the areas of tobacco, pharmaceuticals, blood products, telecommunications – including the defence of the largest such type of case to have come before the Irish Courts
- Advising on a wide range of high value unitary product liability claims
- Advising in relation to the pork product dioxin issue
- Managing product withdrawals and consumer recalls across a wide range of sectors
- Advising leading pharmaceutical companies with regard to the advertising and marketing of medicinal products to the public and other regulatory issues
- Advising on judicial review of decisions of regulatory bodies such as the Irish Medicines Board
- Advice on insurance disputes specific to product liability policies and related coverage