Eric A. Weiss, Attorney

Eric Weiss has over 30 years of legal experience with a focus on products liability litigation.  He is Co-Chair of the firm's Products Liability Practice Group and for two years served as the Products Liability Section Chair of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel's (FDCC) Product Liability Section.

The scope of his products liability practice has included claims of defective design, defective manufacture, inappropriate warnings, and consumer class actions. At issue have been a range of products including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, and ATVs; power tools; appliances; elevators and escalators; automatic door systems; pharmaceuticals; machinery; farm equipment; food products; and others.

Eric's practice has included multidistrict litigation of Ephedra-based products and attempts to obtain multidistrict litigation for various medical testing products. He has also been involved in coordinating litigation in various jurisdictions with regard to Consumer Product Safety Commission targeted products.

Eric serves as national counsel for an insurer with responsibility to step in and try large exposure cases, often on the eve of trial, in jurisdictions such as Maryland, Georgia, and New York.

To date, Eric has tried over 100 cases to verdict throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Maryland.

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