Product Liability Litigation Arising From Lithium-Ion Batteries: Guidance and Strategies for Proving Claims
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive 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
Caroline G. McGlamry
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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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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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