Chinese Drywall Litigation Update
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1.5 Total CLE UnitsPrice: $147.00 (provides online access for 6 months after purchase).Course Level: IntermediateDuration: 1 Hour 32 MinutesOriginal Program Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
What you will learn . . .
Where was the Chinese drywall used?
The health and property damage arising in homes with Chinese drywall.
Remediation costs and health related expenses
Who faces potential liability for the Chinese drywall installation?
What kind of expert you’ll need for your cases.
What is the difference between Chinese drywall and domestic drywall?
Status of the MDL and other class actions.
Faculty
Ervin Gonzalez is a partner at Colson Hicks Eidson, and has more than 20 years of experience practicing products liability, class action, business litigation, medical malpractice and personal injury litigation.
Arnold Levin is the senior partner in the law firm of Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman in Philadelphia. In his 44 years of practicing law, Mr. Levin has either been lead counsel of and/or a member of in excess of 100 steering committees in the fields of mass torts, antitrust, and securities class actions and MDL proceedings.
Richard Lewis is a member of Hausfeld LLP in Washington, D.C., and has been appointed to serve as co-lead counsel in mass tort and product liability class action cases including In re StarLink Corn Products (N.D. Ill) (asserting claims by farmers for genetic modification contamination of the U.S. corn supply) and In re PPA (asserting claims by users of unsafe over-the-counter medicines).
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Chinese Drywall - Liability Issues, Builder v. Distributor v. Manufacturer
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.75 Total CLE Units
Price: $73.50 (provides online access for 6 months after purchase).
Course Level: Intermediate
Duration: 47 Minutes
Original Program Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
What you will learn . . .
• An examination of the builder’s role in the Chinese drywall litigations
• Liability closer to the source: the manufacturer and distributor liability
- who has already been sued and who stands to be brought into the fray
• What does a viable case look like and how do these parties defend against it
• Possible indemnity claims for defendants and how to pursue them
• Real estate law: state law actions against builders update - Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, and California
Faculty
Hugh Turner is the Chair of Akerman Senterfitt's Products Liability and Mass Torts Practice Group. Mr. Turner's litigation practice encompasses the areas of products liability, commercial disputes, class actions, construction, consumer protection class actions and toxic torts. He has represented clients in complex litigation involving asbestos, silica, mold, lead, benzene, pharmaceuticals and other toxic substances and serves as Florida regional counsel for a number of asbestos and silica defendants.
Robert Brown III is a founding equity partner in the law firm of Alters, Boldt, Brown, Rash & Culmo. Mr. Brown has handled mass torts, cases involving catastrophic loss, medical and legal malpractice, product liability, wrongful death, intellectual property and commercial litigation. Over the years, he has tried more than 50 cases to verdict and today continues to enjoy a stellar reputation for being an excellent trial lawyer and providing zealous representation of both individuals and wronged corporations.
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Chinese Drywall - Class Action and MDL Update
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.75 Total CLE Units
Price: $73.50 (provides online access for 6 months after purchase).
Course Level: Intermediate
Duration: 46 Minutes
Original Program Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
What you will learn . . . .
Where was the Chinese drywall used?
The health and propert damage arising in homes with Chinese drywall
Remediation costs and health related expenses
Who faces potential liability for the Chinese drywall installation
What kind of expert you`ll need for your cases
What is the difference between Chinese drywall and domestic drywall
Status of the MDL and other class actions
Faculty
Ervin Gonzalez is a partner at Colson Hicks Eidson, and has more than 20 years of experience practicing products liability, class action, business litigation, medical malpractice and personal injury litigation.
Arnold Levin is the senior partner in the law firm of Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman in Philadelphia. In his 44 years of practicing law, Mr. Levin has either been lead counsel of and/or a member of in excess of 100 steering committees in the fields of mass torts, antitrust, and securities class actions and MDL proceedings.
Richard Lewis is a member of Hausfeld LLP in Washington, D.C., and has been appointed to serve as co-lead counsel in mass tort and product liability class action cases including In re StarLink Corn Products (N.D. Ill) (asserting claims by farmers for genetic modification contamination of the U.S. corn supply) and In re PPA (asserting claims by users of unsafe over-the-counter medicines).
William Schuette is a partner in the Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group at Jones Walker. Since 1983, he has practiced in the areas of commercial, toxic tort, product liability, and professional liability litigation. He has served as lead counsel and co-counsel in numerous trials in Louisiana state and federal courts. He has been a seminar speaker on evidentiary issues, architects' and engineers' liability, insurers' extra-contractual liability, and complex litigation. Mr. Schuette has represented several Fortune 500 companies in asbestos litigation since 1995.
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