David Turner QC
Product Liability
David has extensive experience of commercial product liability disputes, often involving fire. Cases include:
- advising property insurers on recovery following a significant warehouse fire at a major airportsuccessfully defending Hoover against £1M claim following the destruction of a farm house allegedly caused by a defective washing machine
- £multi-million claim by a distribution organisation following the destruction of a depot as a result of fire originating in a trailer’s refrigeration unit
- acting for the defendant suppliers of a component which caused a fire at a chemical plant in Sweden
- acting for the defendant suppliers of an air conditioning assembly alleged to have caused extensive flooding and damage to a major bank's computer systems
- acting for the defendant suppliers of insulation material alleged to have caused a fire in cooking extract ductwork
- acting for the defendant manufacturers of combination boilers which failed in service in accommodation designed for elderly people
- advising the manufacturer of studio quality sound-mixing desks in relation to a claim against a supplier of defective PSUs sold with the desks
- acting for the defendant manufacturers of capacitors fitted in PSUs which had a tendency to combust
- defending designers/suppliers of a state of the art industrial defrosting machine against £100-million pound claim arising from the destruction of factory by fire (the Sun Valley Fire)
- defending suppliers of foam material alleged to cause the delamination of the decking of fast patrol boats supplied to the Jordanian Navy.