Industries: Consumer Products

Child Safety

Remember when burning toy soldiers with a magnifying glass or blowing them up with cherry bombs was fun? Now you know why your parents didn’t agree.

In fact, however, toy safety isn’t the main area of concern.

The media is quick to cover stories of children who have allegedly been hurt by the products they use or the products used around them. From toys to car seats, from pharmaceuticals to firearms, children’s products and adult products used around children are being held to increasingly rigorous standards of safety. Any product used around children presents special challenges.

The McGuireWoods Child Safety team has a thorough understanding of product liability defense litigation strategy, especially as it applies to children. Our team often serves as trial counsel in the most serious cases a company faces. Corporations facing supposedly unsettle-able cases filed in difficult jurisdictions across the nation turn to us to defend them. In spite of the challenges inherent in this field, our firm has averaged a favorable success ratio for the past 10 years.

Some of the services our child safety team offers include the following:

  • Access to our extensive databases of substantial verdicts involving children
  • Assistance with developing childproof and child-resistant packaging and written child-related warnings for non-medical products
  • Strategies to reduce or avoid litigation by developing scientific approaches to testing products and ensuring product safety

McGuireWoods Child Safety lawyers have experience with technical and biological, medical and bio-medical products where children are involved. These are but a few examples of products we have defended:

  • Automotive products
  • Lead paint
  • Medication for children
  • Obesity in children
  • Vaccines
  • Paint guns
  • Firearms
  • Bicycles and other transportation and play equipment
  • Various adult products where children are involved or injured.

The McGuireWoods Child Safety practice offers relevant experience, strategic counsel and the latest technological support. Perhaps more importantly, we are a firm that values and is driven by relationships.