Civil Defense

Product Liability - Warranty Law - Lemon Law Defense - Insurance Coverage - Bad Faith Claims - Insurance Defense - Policy Coverage Interpretation

At AndersonGlenn, our law firm’s traditional focus is on product liability defense in the areas of car, boat, and RV industries. Our practice includes the defense of product designers, manufacturers and sellers and counseling related to claims arising from specific instances of injury.

Characteristically, product liability is broken down into two areas.

  • Product defects causing personal injury, i.e. the “traditional” product liability case.

  • Defects in the product itself, resulting in so-called “warranty” or consumer actions deriving from contractual rights.

Spring boarding senior partner Greg Anderson’s 30-year involvement in these industries, the firm continues to expand its product base of knowledge and legal acumen. Over the years, our Florida product liability defense attorneys have defended claims of crash-worthiness, including a so-called “minivan lift-gate” litigation, asbestos claims, crash-worthiness cases in both the automotive and maritime context, “unintended acceleration” claims, rollover and handling claims, RV weight distribution claims, mold and toxic tort allegations, slip and fall “skid resistant” surface cases, and manufacturing defect cases.

Of particular note are cases involving fires, where the firm’s expertise and relationship with the very best fire causation experts in the world provides the highest quality and most experienced defense available. At AndersonGlenn, our attorneys regularly defend car, boat, and RV cases involving both combustible and electrical fires. Indeed, the firm has never lost a fire related case in its 18-year history.

Along with a wide scope of products liability experience, AndersonGlenn has particular expertise in the following areas: 

  • Automobile, RV and marine fires

  • Automotive, RV, and marine crash-worthiness

  • Alleged mechanical and manufacturing defects such as occupant safety mechanisms (door latches, lift gates, and airbag)

  • Slip and fall maritime accidents

Our work in the area of product liability extends to counseling clients on product recalls, various issues arising form recalls, as well as matters related to product design and warnings. Our attorneys have also had considerable success on the plaintiffs’ side, including the first and only successful prosecution of a defective microwave oven burn case and a transmission failure roll-over case with verdicts in excess of seven figures.

At the Florida law firm of AndersonGlenn LLP, our clients, the RV, boat, and automobile industry, and fellow members of the bar have acknowledged us as the premier warranty defense law firm in the country.

Examples of our attorneys’ work that have established our reputation in warranty defense include:

  • The first and only successful constitutional attack on the model lemon law (Chrysler Corporation vs. Pitorelis, Florida 1998)

  • Successful arguments before the Delaware Supreme Court, the Georgia Supreme Court, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Florida Supreme Court

  • Appointment as the Southeastern Regional Counsel for the country’s third largest automobile manufacturer

  • National coordinating counsel for the nation’s second largest RV manufacturer

  • Southeastern regional counsel for the country’s largest boat manufacturer

  • Florida counsel for over 100 different product manufacturers

At AndersonGlenn LLP, we take pride in maintaining long-standing client relationships, in many cases upwards of twenty years. Within the specialized areas of warranty defense and litigation, our attorneys’ broad experience specifically includes:

  • Model Lemon Law statute defense

  • Deceptive trade practice actions

  • UCC warranty claims, both express and implied

  • Consumer fraud claims

  • Revocation and rescission

  • Federal Magnusum-Moss Cases

  • Common law fraud and misrepresentation actions

Additionally, it is no exaggeration to say that if one were to examine a product warranty, chances are that somewhere in its heritage, an AndersonGlenn Limited Express Warranty was involved. Most of our firm’s clients in this area call the firm to annually update their company limited warranty, purchase agreements, pre-delivery inspection forms, and dealer-manufacturer transactional documents.

The list of companies that have adopted the AndersonGlenn LLP model sales documents, while too long to recite, includes the world’s largest boat manufacturer, the world’s most venerable boat manufacturer, the world’s largest retail company, the nation’s third largest car manufacturer, and the world’s second largest RV manufacturer.

Each year, clients and national manufacturer organizations, including the National Marine Manufacturers Association (“NMMA”) and the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association (“RVIA”), call upon AndersonGlenn LLP to update their companies with regard to the status of warranty law.

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AndersonGlenn’s civil litigation practice also includes a particular specialty in assisting clients with insurance issues involving litigation, bad faith claims, excess coverage, captive carrier, and policy interpretation and insurance coverage disputes.

Our attorneys have represented clients in cases against insurance brokers, disputes between layers of insurance, claims of bad faith, both by plaintiffs and inter-layer carriers, claims management malpractice, and declaratory judgments as to coverage issues.

The very largest carriers in the country regularly call upon AndersonGlenn LLP to render coverage opinions within its specific areas of expertise. Of particular interest in the firm’s practice is our representation of captive carriers in the area of National Governing Organizations (“NGO’s”), including USA Swimming, USA Master’s Swimming, and United States Soccer. The firm’s senior partners are both former All American athletes, and rely on the tribal knowledge of their sports in the evaluation of cases of potential captive carrier exposure and legal advice on the relationships with the excess layers of coverage. Thus, clients may rely on the firm’s expertise in the following areas:

  • Bad faith litigation

  • Excess coverage issues

  • Policy interpretation and exclusions

  • Captive carrier issues

  • Claims management malpractice

  • Broker malpractice

When you need legal help sorting out the particularized insurance coverage issues or building a defense strategy, our attorneys will apply their extensive legal skills to assist you. We will ensure that you understand your legal options, provide you with the information you need to make informed decisions, and recommend the best course of action.

Whenever possible, we assist you in negotiating an acceptable settlement or to resolve your legal problem through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods such as arbitration or mediation. If a satisfactory settlement cannot be reached, we are always prepared to defend you in court. Our attorneys regularly handle litigation in federal court and in the state courts of Florida and Colorado.

Contact our firm and arrange a consultation to determine if an attorney/client relationship with our firm is right for you.