QPWB's National Products Liability & Toxic Tort Practice Group
When a product is blamed for an injury or an alleged exposure becomes a mass claim, the stakes are rarely confined to a single courtroom. QPWB’s Products Liability & Toxic Tort group is built for exactly that reality: a national defense team that combines sophisticated, science-driven litigation strategy with the reach of one of the country’s largest law firm networks.
National Products Liability & Toxic Tort Contacts
A Practice Group Led By The Nation's Best
ARIZONA
William
Purnell
Partner & Group Chair
FLORIDA
Vanessa
Merassaint
Partner
MICHIGAN
Carmen
Bickerdt
Partner
OHIO
Jasmine
Taylor
Associate
PENNSYLVANIA
John
Donahue
Associate
SOUTH CAROLINA
Shanice
Hagood
Associate
TEXAS
Christa
Chance
Partner
VIRGINIA
Sue
Asgari
Associate
Built To Defend Against a Variety of Claims
Product Liability
Design, manufacturing, and failure-to-warn claims across consumer products, industrial and heavy construction equipment, automotive, and mechanical products.
Toxic & Mass Tort
Asbestos, talc, chemical exposure, and other multi-plaintiff and emerging-claim litigation.
Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices
Complex, scientifically intensive matters involving regulated products.
Environmental Claims
Exposure, contamination, and legacy-liability matters for industrial and environmental services clients.
Premises & Personal Injury
High-stakes liability claims tied to products and operations.
Class Action & Multi-Claim Litigation
Coordinated defense of aggregated and high-volume claims.
Why Choose QPWB
National Scale. Unmatched Insight.
A True National Footprint
Product and toxic tort claims rarely respect state lines. QPWB serves clients through a national network of 58 offices in major metropolitan areas from coast to coast, allowing the group to defend matters wherever they are filed, without the cost and friction of stitching together a new team in every venue. Clients get one strategy, one point of accountability, and local presence everywhere it matters.
Strategy That Starts Before the Claim
The group’s leadership has sat on both sides of the table, including senior in-house roles at global manufacturers, and brings that perspective to risk assessment, product safety, regulatory compliance, and litigation avoidance. We help clients define, measure, and minimize exposure proactively, and we counsel C-suite leaders and insurers on global risk management and legal spend, not just individual cases.
Value and Accountability
As one of the fastest growing and largest law firms in the country, QPWB pairs the resources of a national platform with a culture of responsiveness and disciplined, cost-effective staffing. Clients receive sophisticated defense without big-firm overhead, and a team that treats budget predictability and reporting as part of the engagement, not an afterthought.
Science, Trial Skill, and Judgment
From expert development and Daubert strategy to mediation, arbitration, and trial, the group brings the technical fluency and courtroom experience these cases demand, together with the practical judgment to resolve matters efficiently when resolution is the right outcome for the client.
