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Eric A. Weiss

Eric A. Weiss

Co-Chair, Products Liability Practice Group
Eric Weiss is Co-Chair of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin's Products Liability Practice Group. The scope of his products liability practice has included claims of defective design, defective manufacture, inappropriate warnings, and consumer class actions. Eric's practic has included multidistrict litigation of Ephedra-based products and attempts to obtain multidistrict litigation for various medical testing products.
 
Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin
1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19103-4797
(Philadelphia Co.)

Telephone: 215-575-2676
Fax: 215-575-0856
http://www.marshalldennehey.com



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Practice AreasProducts Liability Defense; Automobile Products Liability Defense; Commercial Litigation; Directors and Officers Liability; Patent Litigation; Class Actions
 
EducationTemple University (J.D., 1974; LL.M. Labor Law, 1977), Villanova University, B.S., 1971
 
Admitted1974, Pennsylvania; 1987, New Jersey; 1995, New York; 1993, U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, U.S. District Court, Middle, Western and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court, Southern, Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
 
MembershipsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey State, New York State and American (Member, Sections on: Torts; Insurance Practice) Bar Associations; Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel (Chair, Products Liability Section); Pennsylvania Defense Institute (Member, Products Liability Committee); Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Defense Research Institute; American Board of Trial Advocates (Past President, Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter).
 
BornDetroit, Michigan
 
BiographyAuthor, "Admissibility of Post-Accident Design Changes as Evidence of Product Defect," Defense Digest, Winter 1994. Co-Author: "Pennsylvania Superior Court Questions Admissibility of Plaintiff's Conduct in Strict Product Liability Action," Defense Digest, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1997-02; "Enforceability of Rule 26(c) Confidentiality Orders and Agreements," FICC Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2, Winter 1999; "The Nature and Impact of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability Section 10: Post-Sale Duty to Warn," FICC Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2000-12. Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2001-2009. Best Lawyers in America, 2007-2010.
 
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