Renzulli Law Firm represents insurers and insureds (both international and domestic), as well as third-party claims administrators, self-insureds and corporate clients. We cover a wide variety of practice areas, including: Product Liability, Industry-Wide Liability & Class Actions, Premises Liability & Construction/Labor Law, Municipal Liability, Environmental & Toxic Torts, Automobile & Trucking Liability, Corporate & Commercial Counseling, and Insurance Coverage. Renzulli Law Firm also offers particular expertise in Firearms Industry Litigation, Counseling & Consulting.
We believe that examining the “whole picture” of any matter is critical and pride ourselves on having the experience and forward thinking to meet the needs of our clients, both today and in the future. Renzulli Law Firm attorneys have achieved great success at each stage of the litigation process including pleadings, discovery, motion practice, trial and appeals. We also offer our clients risk assessment and prevention recommendations and provide lectures and seminars in these critical areas.
Renzulli Law Firm maintains a library of legal briefs, expert materials and discovery packages which are constantly updated with changes in the law and important recent developments. Our continued maintenance of our library ensures that we stay ahead of the curve and can effectively and economically defend our clients’ interests inside and outside the courtroom.
PRODUCT LIABILITY, INDUSTRY-WIDE LIABILITY & CLASS ACTIONS
The attorneys at Renzulli Law Firm have expertise in defending clients against product liability lawsuits that is second to none. We represent manufacturers, distributors and retailers in connection with a wide range of products, including but not limited to firearms, ammunition, industrial machinery and equipment, elevators and escalators, household products, food products, pharmaceuticals, tractors and lawn mowers, sports equipment, pools and diving boards, and compressed gas cylinders. We serve as national counsel for a number of product manufacturers. This relationship provides us with the ability to see beyond the present and enables Renzulli Law Firm to become a trusted advisor to our clients. We recognize that what happens in one case oftentimes has implications for others. As such, we regularly counsel clients with regard to product literature, governmental compliance and risk management as well as vigorously defend lawsuits. Renzulli Law Firm has successfully served as liaison and lead trial counsel in industry-wide litigation in federal and state courts. We have also defended complex class-action lawsuits throughout the nation.
PREMISES LIABILITY & CONSTRUCTION/LABOR LAW
Renzulli Law Firm attorneys have extensive experience defending premises liability and construction/labor law lawsuits throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. We represent defendants in lawsuits involving residential dwellings and a wide array of commercial properties, including restaurants, retail stores and supermarkets. Our clients include municipalities, property owners, general contractors, subcontractors and their insurance carriers, risk managers and third-party administrators. We also have extensive experience with construction site claims and lawsuits. Just a few of the many issues that are addressed daily by Renzulli Law Firm attorneys include actual and constructive notice, landlords out of possession of properties, snow and ice conditions, open and obvious conditions, negligent security, assumption of the risk, lead paint conditions, duty to defend, hold harmless and indemnity in leases and contracts, labor law statutes (such as N.Y. Labor Law § 240 and § 241) and worker's compensation law.
MUNICIPAL LIABILITY
Renzulli Law Firm represents towns, villages and other municipal entities with respect to a host of legal issues. We defend clients against various tort claims, including alleged civil rights violations, professional liability and personal injury. We work with insurers, third-party administrators and self-insureds to protect our municipal clients. Renzulli Law Firm attorneys have particularized knowledge in the area of law enforcement, which gives us a unique ability to defend liability claims alleging, for example, excessive use of force and other civil rights violations against municipal employees.
ENVIRONMENTAL & TOXIC TORTS
Renzulli Law Firm represents clients in environmental and toxic tort claims. The firm has experience with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) as well as various state statutory and common law contamination laws, including defense of property owners and generators against pollution claims. Additionally, our attorneys handle claims against many different entities in asbestos-related and other toxic tort lawsuits. Renzulli Law Firm achieves positive results by staying focused on the individualized needs of our clients in these often large, complex litigations.
AUTOMOBILE & TRUCKING LIABILITY
Renzulli Law Firm attorneys represent major insurance carriers and their insureds in defense of motor vehicle and trucking liability litigation. We also have experience with lessor and lessee contracts. Renzulli Law Firm has the knowledge and experience to handle single motor vehicle accidents up through complex, multi-party claims.
CORPORATE & COMMERICAL COUNSELING
Renzulli Law Firm attorneys provide advice and counseling on a broad range of corporate, commercial and general business matters to both domestic and international corporations. We provide representation in many areas affecting our clients’ businesses, including insurance, government compliance, tax, banking, antitrust, patent and trademark, contracts, and distributor/retailer agreements. We also advise our clients in employment-related matters and are well-versed in applicable federal statutes, including matters arising under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Our goal is to protect our clients from litigation, allowing them to focus on running their business. Should a lawsuit arise, however, our litigation experience enables us to seamlessly and aggressively pursue the matter to conclusion.
INSURANCE COVERAGE
Renzulli Law Firm attorneys represent insurance companies and individual policy holders in various disputes concerning all types of insurance policies. Our attorneys provide advice, counseling and representation in insurance litigation and coverage issues to our various clients on a host of issues. We handle all types of professional liability claims, including insurance broker errors and omissions, directors and officers liability and general commercial liability. The firm has extensive experience with the issues which arise in such claims, including but not limited to declaratory judgment actions, reservation of rights and denial of claims, policy language drafting and interpretation, coverage opinions, notice of claims and triggers of coverage and bad faith litigation.
FIREARMS INDUSTRY LITIGATION, COUNSELING & CONSULTING
Renzulli Law Firm is nationally recognized as one of the premier law firms in the country serving the Firearms Industry. We have an experienced, full-service firearms defense team that handles all legal issues and regulatory concerns that affect Industry members.
Our experience in defending product liability claims filed against our clients is unmatched. Our firm has tried numerous firearms cases to defense verdicts in federal and state courts throughout the country. Our attorneys have logged more court hours on firearms product liability cases in the last decade than any other law firm in the United States. We have also obtained summary judgment and early dismissals of cases on numerous occasions for our clients. Our superior understanding of firearms products, product liability law, evidentiary issues and our aggressive approach to case handling gives us a strategic advantage over the plaintiffs' bar. Through our extensive litigation experience gained over the years, we have developed a team of preeminent experts in the areas of firearms design, manufacturing, handling, warnings and forensic firearms analysis. We have an extensive library of authoritative texts, periodicals and articles concerning these Industry-related issues. We have successfully cross-examined, in depositions and at trial, the most frequently retained plaintiffs' firearms experts and have created a library of prior deposition and trial testimony which enables us to effectively neutralize and often capitalize on their opinions.
Our firm has successfully defended numerous firearms manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers in ground breaking firearms public nuisance litigation initiated by various municipalities, local governments and The Brady Center throughout the country. We have also successfully defended our clients against warranty and product-based national class actions. Renzulli Law Firm has prevailed in nationally publicized lawsuits against distributors and dealers for alleged improper firearms sales. Our firm has also been retained as lead trial counsel in patent and trademark lawsuits affecting our firearms clients.
We regularly counsel our clients on the content of their manufacturer, distributor and retailer agreements in order to address the current legal landscape. We are active members of several firearms trade groups and frequently address government entities on issues concerning gun control for the Industry. In addition, our firm provides training and instruction to Federal Firearm Licensees on a national basis on the many regulatory issues (including record keeping and BATFE compliance) affecting their businesses. We also offer our clients risk assessment and prevention recommendations and often lecture on these issues.
We prepare and review all forms of product literature for our Industry clients (including warnings, instruction manuals, advertisements, safety materials and websites) in an effort to preempt litigation emanating from these company documents. Our firm also counsels clients on the institution of recalls, retrofits and safety upgrades. We have successfully launched and monitored recall and retrofit campaigns for our clients.
We often assist our Industry clients to obtain the appropriate insurance for their business needs through our significant contacts in the Insurance Industry. Our firm also has created and currently manages an off-shore captive insurance company for one of our clients. In addition, we have protected the interests of our Industry clients in insurance coverage disputes. |
