Product Liability and Personal Injury Claims

Our Firm regularly advises and/or provides defense to a wide range of corporate clients facing issues or claims related to their products in both the Puerto Rico local courts and in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. We regularly assist clients in evaluating potential or existing claims related to defective products, equipment and machinery. We support our clients in establishing and implementing necessary strategies to avoid or minimize potential claims and in successfully defending asserted ones.

We also have ample experience in defending personal injury claims related to alleged defects in the design, manufacturing or installation of products and machinery, as well as those asserting inexistent or inadequate warnings. We have successfully defended a large stateside manufacturer of vertical transportation systems in literally hundreds of personal injury cases, by disposing of the vast majority of those claims either by nuisance value judgments and settlements or outright dismissals, with very few of the cases resulting in awards that may be characterized as non-nuisance. We have been actively involved in the defense of mass tort litigation and asbestos litigation.