Claire Breaux Ventola

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2000 Market Street, Suite 2300, Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Claire Breaux Ventola is a shareholder with Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin. She provides legal counsel to manufacturing companies and service companies in the areas of products liability and premises liability.
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Claire has extensive experience in the defense of complex litigation and general casualty cases involving product liability, premises liability, construction (representing contractors, subcontractors and product manufacturers) and personal injury. She has also defended automobile cases, breach of contract cases, real estate appraisal cases and toxic tort cases involving benzene, asbestos and silica.

Currently, Claire represents a major elevator and escalator manufacturer in Pennsylvania and an automatic door manufacturer in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She also has experience representing manufacturers of HVAC systems, pesticides and chemical products, commercial appliances and respiratory protective equipment, as well as experience in defending a variety of defendants in general negligence cases.

Upon obtaining her juris doctor from Boston University in 1995, Claire worked as a judicial clerk for the Supreme Court of Louisiana until 1996. Thereafter, she was a shareholder at the defense law firm of Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois, Pfister & Weinstock in the greater New Orleans, Louisiana area, where she practiced for 12 years. Claire has been with Marshall Dennehey since 2008.

Honors & awards

The Best Lawyers in America, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
2026

Year joined

2008

Thought Leadership

98 Marshall Dennehey Attorneys Recognized in the 2026 Editions of The Best Lawyers in America and the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America

August 20, 2025
Marshall Dennehey is proud to highlight the firm’s 98 attorneys who have been recognized in the 2026 editions of The Best Lawyers in America and the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America. Less than 6% of all practicing lawyers in the U.S.

Immune or Not Immune? That Is the Question

Philadelphia - Headquarters
General Liability
Workers' Compensation
October 1, 2020
Defense Digest, Vol. 26, No.

Classes/Seminars Taught

Personal Injury Law From Start to Finish: Law and Legislative Update, Sterling Educational Seminars, Philadelphia, PA, July 14, 2015

Product Liability
Premises and Retail Liability
Construction Injury Litigation
Environmental & Toxic Tort Litigation
Employment Law
Catastrophic Claims Litigation

University Attended:

Northwestern State University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1992

Law School Attended:

Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, J.D., 1995

Year of First Admission:

1995

Admission:

1995, Louisiana; 2007, Pennsylvania; 2012, New Jersey; 1995, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; 1995, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana; 1995, U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana; 2010, U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 2008, U.S. District Court of New Jersey

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Associations & Memberships

•American Bar Association, 1995
•Louisiana State Bar Association, 1995
•New Jersey Bar Association, 2012
•Pennsylvania Bar Association, 2008
•Philadelphia Bar Association, 2013

Reported Cases:

Published Works: Park and Cross At Your Own Risk, Defense Digest, Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2017 and Counterpoint, January 2018; The General Standards of OSHA and ANSI Do Not Preempt State Tort Claims Against Product Manufacturers in Pennsylvania, Defense Digest, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010

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910153094

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