Product Liability Litigation Arising From Lithium-Ion Batteries: Guidance and Strategies for Proving Claims
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will offer guidance and strategies for attorneys litigating lithium-ion battery fires.
Outline
- Introduction:
- Lithium-ion battery failure: thermal runaway
- Fire and origin: fire causation (experts)
- Lithium-ion battery: failure causation (experts)
- Defendants and theories of liability
- Identifying potential defendants
- Jurisdiction
- Design defect, manufacturing defect, failure to warn
- Medical device: preemption
- Insurer, re-insurer, and subrogation issues
Benefits
The panel will review these and other important issues:
- How to establish jurisdiction over a foreign manufacturer?
- What experts are needed to investigate these fires?
- What other experts are needed to prove liability?
- How are lithium-ion batteries regulated and who enforces those regulations?
- What are the most difficult evidentiary challenges in proving this type of a product defect?
Faculty
Michael L. (Mike) McGlamry
Shareholder
Pope McGlamry
Mr. McGlamry is and has been actively representing plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, products... | Read More
Mr. McGlamry is and has been actively representing plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, products and pharmaceutical liability, class actions and mass torts actions that have resulted in verdicts or settlements approaching a billion dollars. He and his partners have long been recognized both in Georgia and nationally as a go-to firm that will take on the most challenging cases and opposition. Mr. McGlamry has focused on mass tort litigation and has served in leadership roles in several national, high profile, injury cases.
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Caroline G. McGlamry
Shareholder
Pope McGlamry
Ms. McGlamry graduated cum laude with a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. She spent a... | Read More
Ms. McGlamry graduated cum laude with a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. She spent a year working in Washington, D.C. before furthering her studies at the University of Georgia School of Law where she graduated with a J.D. in 2013. While in law school, Ms. McGlamry served as the Executive Notes Editor for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. She also served as President of UGA’s Street Law and on the Athens Peer Court Design & Implementation Team, where she helped develop and implement a Teen Court model for the Athens, GA community. In 2013, Ms. McGlamry joined Pope McGlamry and has focused her career on representing plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, products and pharmaceutical liability, class actions and mass torts actions.
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Stuart M. Paynter
Principal
Paynter Law
Mr. Paynter is an experienced trial attorney specializing in catastrophic personal injury cases, products liability and... | Read More
Mr. Paynter is an experienced trial attorney specializing in catastrophic personal injury cases, products liability and other complex litigation. He began his career at one of the nations most prestigious law firms Sullivan & Cromwell before starting in own law firm in 2005. Under his leadership, Paynter Law has obtained over $500 million in verdicts and settlements, including one of the largest verdicts of 2018 in a medical malpractice case. Mr. Paynter believes every client deserves their day in court and fights to make it happen. During the course of his career, he has taken on and won against Fortune 500 companies and other large institutions--including groundbreaking litigation against the NCAA that resulted in a $60 million settlement for student athletes.
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