Our team has particularly extensive experience handling a wide range of individual, class, and mass tort product liability litigation for a broad spectrum of women’s health products and reproductive-system injuries. This unique body of experience and scientific knowledge led to the creation of our Women’s Health Product Liability team.
Our team has defended, or is currently defending, product liability litigation involving hormone contraceptives, pelvic mesh, hormone replacement therapy, diet drugs, breast implants, and age and bone loss drugs, among others. In addition this team is exceptionally diverse, featuring numerous women trial lawyers and mass tort litigators with an unparalleled history working in this arena.
Comprised of highly experienced lawyers from across the country with sophisticated litigation experience in a wide range of matters involving women’s health, we have the ability to quickly assume the role as defense counsel in new litigation involving women’s health products as the learning curve in many cases is significantly reduced.
Our lawyers has extensive knowledge of the specific disease-states that affect women’s reproductive systems, including pelvic organ prolapse, stress urinary incontinence, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, and thromboembolism, as well as birth defects resulting from transplacental exposure. We also know how to defend what can be very sympathetic cases.
Our lawyers are at the forefront of partnering with businesses like yours to strategically develop and defend cases that involve controversial science. We have also established relationships with well-credentialed and highly regarded physicians and scientists in the women’s health arena (e.g., OB-GYNs, urogynecologists, rheumatologists, cardiologists, neurologists and oncologists). As such, we have successfully resolved major litigation by retaining the leading experts in the field, and then positioning the cases to leverage the science and literature in your favor, often resulting in significant Daubert victories that derail the case value and plaintiffs’ efforts to expand the litigation.
Based on this extensive knowledge, we at Reed Smith have the ability to quickly develop a comprehensive litigation end-game strategy for your company, and manage both litigation and trials through our unique experience and exceptionally diverse and deep bench.
