Products Liability

Martin Pringle's products liability defense practice has long been its best known and most highly respected practice area.

It started with the firm's development of the renowned aviation products liability defense program for Beech Aircraft Corporation. Under the leadership of Robert Martin and William L. Oliver, Jr., this practice area has steadily expanded to include almost every area of products liability defense work. This practice group has aggressively defended cases for American and foreign manufacturers and their insurance carriers in all product areas, including aircraft, industrial machinery, road equipment, tires and automobiles, consumer products, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, aviation components, and tools and health care products, to name just a few.

Recently, the British aviation company, BBA, retained the firm to represent it and its various U.S. subsidiaries in products liability cases.

Lawyers in the products group have diversified litigation practices and have been involved with a number of categories of various other types of litigation: wrongful death, personal injury, toxic tort, and complex commercial litigation, class actions and multi-district federal court litigation. Martin Pringle has also successfully represented a number of Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies.

Martin Pringle prides itself on its reputation in the products field and expects this practice area to continue its growth into new markets as more companies and insurers recognize the risk management benefits that a comprehensive product defense program can provide.