Products liability law is a major area of concentration for HOPKINS, BARVIÉ & HOPKINS. The firm represents numerous industrial companies and corporations on a continuing basis. 

HOPKINS, BARVIÉ & HOPKINS represents clients not only in trials and appellate hearings, but also in such pre-trial matters as injunction and motion hearings, depositions and other discovery proceedings. The diverse theories of liability in which the attorneys in the firm have tried cases include negligent design, failure to warn, strict liability in tort, defective manufacture, product misuse, assumption of the risk, breach of warranty under the Uniform Commercial Code, state of the art limitations, and obvious dangers. The firm maintains an active practice representing manufacturers, distributors and retailers of products such as food and drugs, airplanes, appliances, machinery, automobiles, asbestos, product containers, heating devices, firearms, cleaning products, recreational equipment, home tools and fixtures.

Products liability law is particularly the area of the expert, and a great deal has been done in recent years in melding the skills of the lawyer and the engineering expert. The members of the firm believe that a considerable number of products liability cases may be incorrectly decided because of the improper utilization of the skills of the expert witness. For these reasons, a great deal of attention is devoted by the firm members in acquiring basic scientific data, which it is often essential that a lawyer have in order to properly defend a products liability case, and in consideration of the detailed role of the expert.