Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation

Pepper's Health Effects Litigation Practice Group counsels clients and handles litigation involving claimed adverse health effects from ingestion of, or exposure to, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, radiation, chemicals, consumer goods, environmental substances and industrial equipment.

Common strands underline and unite our activities in defending the variety of cases presenting health effects claims. We work with health effect "expert" witnesses examining questions of epidemiology and the causation of injury and disease and exploring the legal consequences of uncertain causation. There are recurring substantive and procedural questions, including class action certification, multi-district litigation, federal pre-emption of state law cuases of action, and in limine hearings to exclude expert testimony. The practice group brings to bear our shared experience in each of these areas in defending and counselling clients.