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Kirby T. Griffis

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Kirby T. Griffis tries cases for corporate clients in high-stakes pharmaceutical and medical device, and products liability litigation, and in serial litigation cases of national importance.  A recent trial victory was to force a favorable settlement on the last day before closing arguments in a 26-year-old personal-injury case in the Civil District Court for Orleans Parish, Louisiana, an American Tort Reform Association-certified hellhole jurisdiction. Read More >

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Precedents

• The Zometa® Cases

  Hollingsworth LLP outwits well-funded plaintiffs' attorney group by prevailing in early trials (including plaintiffs' trial picks) in consolidated litigation for client Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

• The Parlodel® Trilogy

  11th Circuit affirmance in Rider v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals completes circuit court Daubert sweep in Parlodel® litigation.

• Favorable settlement reached for Norfolk Southern in largest single tort case in South Carolina history

  Avondale Mills, Inc. v. Norfolk Southern Corp., Civ. No. 1:05-2817-MBS (D.S.C. 2008)

• Court dismissed $4B claim brought by the State of New Mexico against Firm client General Electric.

  New Mexico v. Gen. Electric Co., 467 F.3d 1223 (10th Cir. 2006)

• Federal court grants Daubert and summary judgment motions filed by Firm client General Motors in PCB lawsuit.

  Allgood v. General Motors Corp., No. 1:02-cv-1077-DFH-TAB (S.D. Ind. Sept. 18, 2006)

Verdicts & Opinions

• Federal district court dismisses putative class action against Sherwin-Williams

  Brad Lafferty, et al. v. The Sherwin-Williams Company, et al., Case No. 1:17-cv-06321, at *8 (D.N.J. Aug. 21, 2018)

• Federal court judge holds N.J. statute precludes punitive damages and “fraud” exception is preempted

  McWilliams v. Novartis AG, et al., No. 2:17-cv-14302-RLR (July 31, 2018)

• New Jersey Superior Court grants Firm client Avon Products, Inc.’s motion for summary judgment in talc litigation.

  Martinez v. American International Industries, et al., No. MID-L-1120-17AS (June 15, 2018)

• 11th Circuit Affirms Firm Client Novartis’s Summary Judgment Win Based on Daubert Exclusion of Causation Experts’ Testimony in Reclast® Case

  Jones v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. 17-11063 (11th Cir. Apr. 30, 2018)

• Court narrows American Guarantee’s defenses to Norfolk Southern’s claim for additional insured coverage while allowing Norfolk Southern’s counterclaim for statutory penalties to be tried.

  American Guarantee and Liability Insurance Company v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, et al., Case No. 3:16-cv-129 (E.D. Tenn., Oct. 6, 2017)