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The HPTY team of Erin Hayner, Susan Egeland, Lauren Wood, and Ed Slaughter won summary judgment in Los Angeles County on behalf of their client, a national retailer and manufacturer of construction materials.
Warner Fox and Shane Keith obtained a directed verdict on behalf of HPTY's client, Marriott International, in a hotly-contested negligent hiring and premises liability claim.
- January 2012
Shane Keith defended a premises liability action wherein the plaintiff alleged that a property management company's negligence led to her rape by a stranger on the premises.
- January 31, 2012
The HPTY team of Barry Schirm, Katie Benton and Chris Ege won summary judgment inLos AngelesCountyon behalf of their client, a regional manufacturer of joint compound which contained asbestos in the past.
- January 12, 2012
Affirming the trial court’s ruling which dismissed HPTY’s client, the California Supreme Court held definitively that “a product manufacturer generally may not be held strictly liable for harm caused by another manufacturer’s product,” regardless of whether that harm was foreseeable.