Product Liability and Mass Tort Litigation

Our experts have testified on damages issues, litigation risk assessments for liability and damages, identification of optimal litigation strategies, structuring of complex settlements, valuation of potential insurance recovery, testimony on discount rates, and identification and coordination of expert witnesses.

Our experts have been involved in several legacy cases with mass tort liabilities related to exposure to asbestos, medical devices, welding fumes, silica, ground water contamination, tainted drywall, and manganese. We have also estimated health care costs associated with exposure to air pollutants including SOx and particulate matter in both litigation and policy making matters.

We have appeared before federal and bankruptcy courts and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings involving numerous products, such as asbestos, lead, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, construction, chemicals, and tanker ships.

Our expertise includes:

• We conducted statistical modeling and applied decision analysis to value breast implant liability and damages claims.
• Members of The Brattle Group projected the timing and magnitude of future asbestos claims and analyzed potential insurance recovery.
• We evaluated a large database for leaking pipe claims and projected the magnitude and timing of future claims.
• We estimated the level of funds required to cover future Dalkon Shield claims.
• We provided expert analysis concerning the economic damages resulting from asbestos in state buildings.
• The Brattle Group analyzed trends in product liability and bodily injury claims to project potential future claims related to a manufacturing firm.
• We estimated class action damages from material degradation in a home appliance system.
• We conducted a seminar for an oil shipping company to examine the relationship of maintenance activities to failure modes for double-hulled vessels.