For more than four decades, UB Greensfelder has represented companies in highly sophisticated toxic tort and chemical exposure liability matters. We have extensive experience defending mass environmental and toxic tort cases, including class actions and consolidated proceedings in dozens of states, as well as successfully taking cases to trial and navigating the appellate process.
Our lawyers have developed case shortening and case management techniques, including expert challenges under Daubert, Frye, and Rule 702. Clients appreciate our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems through novel approaches utilizing Lone Pine orders, mandatory classes, and innovative settlement structures, including the use of third-party settlement insurers. We understand how to defend cases involving hundreds (or thousands) of claimants to help streamline litigation, manage cost-effective teams, and provide resolution and end-game strategies through summary judgment, trial, appeal, and settlement.
Who We Help
We represent global companies, including a significant number of clients in the automotive, oil and gas, chemical, pigment/paint, and heavy equipment industries, who have manufactured, distributed, or installed products, leading to exposure or public nuisance claims, including:
- Boilers
- Cement
- Construction products
- Cranes
- Electrical products
- Friction products
- Furnaces
- Gaskets
- Insulation
- Respirators
- Talc
- Valves
- Myriad residential and commercial contractors that construct or repair premises
