Product Liability

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When corporations choose their profits over the safety of their customers and the public, DiCello Levitt will act. Our product liability attorneys rely on a scientific approach and decades of trial experience to achieve justice for our clients.

DiCello Levitt is a highly esteemed product liability group with strength in plaintiff representation.

Chambers USA

We represent individuals, businesses, State Attorneys General, municipalities, and other public clients in individual lawsuits, mass torts, and class actions. Taking on industry goliaths like Abbott, Syngenta, Volkswagen, General Motors, Apple, and Intel, we have secured nearly $30 billion in verdicts and settlements for clients in some of the most significant and well-known product liability cases in the country. Our attorneys have successfully wielded their skills on behalf of injured parties in cases involving faulty medical devices, automotive and airplane defects, and other dangerous and defective products. By aggressively pursuing and rooting out corporate malfeasance, we create positive and lasting social change—in addition to winning compensation for those already injured.

To deliver our successful track record, we leverage the resources of the DiCello Levitt Trial Center, where we conduct in-house focus groups and mock jury practice to streamline cases, refine the art of messaging, and utilize scientific methods of communicating critical concepts to judges and juries. Our nationally recognized trial attorneys and their game-changing results prove that we understand how to connect with and persuade 21st-century jurors.

Representative Matters

• In re Porsche Cars Plastic Coolant Tubes Litigation

Secured a $45 million settlement for owners and lessees of 2003-2006 Porsche Cayenne V8 vehicles as Co-Lead Counsel in the multidistrict class action lawsuit asserting economic loss claims against Porsche for damages sustained when the vehicles’ plastic coolant pipes prematurely degraded or fractured.

• In re Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation

Resolved more than 500 federal lawsuits as Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee member for a record $17 billion against Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche for defrauding consumers who believed they were buying vehicles with “clean diesel” engines. Leadership on the case was referred to as the “class action dream team.”

• In re Paraquat Products Liability Litigation

Represent licensed applicators of the herbicide Paraquat as a Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee member against Chevron and Syngenta for causing Parkinson’s disease from occupational exposure to Paraquat.

• Palmieri v. Intervet, Inc. d/b/a Merck Animal Health

Represent a class of plaintiffs against Merck Animal Health for failing to adequately warn pet owners its flea and tick medication can cause neurological side effects such as seizures.