Product Liability & Consumer Claims
"The best in the market, particularly strong in labour-relate litigation"
- Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific
Overview
We advise and defend clients across all industries on challenging product liability litigation matters including consumer class actions. We have successfully handled a wide range of product liability issues, including car exhaust fume and engine defects, defective home appliances, defective medicines and large-scale facility defects, such as a power generation facility, and in each instance, we have mastered complicated technical issues that are key to a product liability dispute. These strengths and breadth of experience enable us to provide the most optimal solutions tailored to specific industry and dispute type.
Manufacturer are required to produce and sell products that are safe and durable determined by the standard of technology and economic feasibility at the time of distribution. A manufacturer will be held liable for injuries and damages caused by a defective product, and recently, a wide range of legal issues have emerged with respect to product defects, such as recalls, consumer claims or class actions.
We have a proven track record of success in resolving and advising all types of product liability disputes in major industries, in close collaboration of attorneys with specific industry knowledge, patent attorneys as well as professionals with broad government experience. We also assist clients in all consumer related disputes including dispute mediation by the Korea Consumer Agency, and consumer class actions.