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Hicks Helveston Mozingo & Quarles, PLLC

Mississippi Insurance Defense Lawyers

  • Attorneys
  • Practice Areas
    • Agricultural & Agri-Business Litigation
    • Construction & Real Estate Litigation
    • Employment Litigation
    • Environmental & Toxic Tort Liability
    • Fraud & Fiduciary Duty
    • General Liability
    • Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith
    • Lender Liability
    • Products & Services Liability
    • Professional Malpractice
    • Public Entity Representation
    • Surety Litigation
    • Transactional Insurable Risks
    • Trial & Appellate Practice
    • Trucking, Transport & Common Carrier
    • Workers’ Compensation
    • Workers’ Compensation Fraud
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601-812-5885

Products & Services Liability

Our firm has defended products from claims of defects and design for over 25 years, defending insureds as well as self-insured corporate entities. 

We have defended claims of improperly performed or inadequate services, and warranty issues. We have experience is the determination of adequacy, causation, and measuring recoverability of damages.

Example Cases

A sampling of the type of product liability claims our lawyers have handled include:

  • Obtained a defense verdict in Alabama wherein Plaintiff claimed Defendant car dealership had damaged a new Cadillac and sold it as new.  Counsel was able to completely discredit Plaintiff’s expert, settling the case for $1,500.
  • Successfully handled claims against regional heavy equipment dealer concerning claims by customers regarding defective equipment or repairs to equipment.
  • Successfully concluded a food poisoning matter wherein Plaintiff alleged that toxic orange juice was sold out of date by an insured grocery store.  Counsel was able to obtain a settlement for far less than the damages alleged.  Defense was able to prove that Plaintiff suffered a temporary injury but exaggerated the claim by contending that he had received permanent injuries and disability.
  • Obtained agreed dismissal with prejudice of claim against a wholesale supplier of diesel truck parts on grounds that supplier was intermediate supplier of parts and not manufacturer of parts, which was a foreign entity.
  • Secured a jury verdict when Plaintiff alleged that defective cement manufactured by a cement manufacturer in St. Louis caused severe permanent injuries.  The proof showed the Plaintiff was intoxicated and remained in the wet cement for an extended period.  Proof showed that a sample of the cement used had less alkali than a bar of soap found in the men’s room in the federal courthouse in which the case was tried.
  • Successfully negotiated claim (without litigation) of client for material misrepresentation and fraud against Canadian supplier of high-tech plasma cutter and subsequently successfully resisted claims of Canadian supplier’s bankruptcy trustee.
  • Successfully defended a Fortune 50 chemical company in a contract dispute brought concerning injection-molded plastic pallets.  On appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, a nearly $1 million-dollar judgment was reversed, and judgment rendered for our client, awarding zero (0) damages to the Plaintiffs.
  • Represented industrial equipment producer in numerous lawsuits involving hundreds of plaintiffs claiming exposure to asbestos, with many of the plaintiffs seeking voluntary dismissal and others settled for no more than nuisance value.

Our Clients

Representative clients include:

  • Crawler Parts, Inc.
  • Heavyquip, ITR
  • Rocket, Inc.
  • Scott Equipment Company
  • S. B. International

COLUMBUS OFFICE

Plaza Building
701 7th St. North, Suite 3
PO Box 1111
Columbus, MS 39703-1111
(662) 243-7300
(662) 237-1485

GULFPORT OFFICE

4922 A Court House Rd.
Gulfport, MS 39507
(228) 206-1397
(601) 852-1142

JACKSON OFFICE

Highland Village, Suite 278
4500 I-55 North
PO Box 4587
Jackson, MS 39296-4587
(601) 812-5885
(601) 852-1142

STARKVILLE OFFICE

1016 Louisville St., Suite E
Starkville, MS 39759
(662) 268-5096
(662) 323-5256

WEST POINT OFFICE

103 East Broad St.
West Point, MS 39773-0835
(662) 494-5184
(662) 494-4836

BIRMINGHAM OFFICE

420 N. 20th St. Suite 200
Birmingham, AL 35203
(209) 915-5268

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