Torts & Products Liability
Meeting Complex Challenges with Confidence
Torts & Products Liability disputes are often sudden, high-stakes, and complex. Bassford Remele delivers strategic counsel to clients across Minnesota and beyond, efficiently managing claims from accident investigation to trial and appeal. Whether addressing catastrophic fire and explosion losses, commercial vehicle accidents, or intricate equipment failures, our team leverages deep industry experience and a history of courtroom success to guide clients through the most challenging litigation.
Our practice covers a broad array of product and tort claims, serving manufacturers, distributors, utilities, insurers, and other stakeholders in state, federal, and appellate courts. We tailor our advocacy to each unique case, ensuring a thorough understanding of science, technology, and insurance considerations behind every loss.
Respected regionally and nationally for insightful litigation and practical problem-solving, Bassford Remele’s lawyers help clients manage risk, resolve disputes, and aggressively defend their interests through trial and appeal.
Fire, Explosion & Catastrophic Loss
We investigate and litigate high-value losses stemming from fires, explosions, and large-scale accidents. Our team rapidly mobilizes to conduct scene examinations, preserve evidence, and collaborate with fire and engineering experts to develop defenses that combine technical issues with common sense.
Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death
Our attorneys defend clients facing significant personal injury and wrongful death claims, including those arising from workplace incidents, vehicular crashes, and dangerous products. We work closely with expert witnesses to analyze causation and damages, always mindful of reputational and financial risks.
Food Safety
Our team represents food processors, distributors, retailers, and their insurers in litigation involving contamination, recalls, labeling, and manufacturing allegations. We blend industry knowledge with legal strategy to manage risk and defend against product liability claims in a highly regulated field.
Commercial & Motor Vehicle
Through meticulous investigation, collaboration with accident reconstruction and industry experts, and persuasive courtroom advocacy, our team consistently delivers superior outcomes. Bassford Remele’s proven record includes trial wins, summary judgments, and appellate victories in cases involving trucking, fleet management, commercial passenger vehicles, and specialty transport.
Extensive Experience
Bassford Remele’s products liability attorneys draw on extensive litigation experience defending manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers in claims arising from a broad spectrum of products, including, but not limited to:
- Anhydrous ammonia releases
- Bad seed and feed
- Biofuel processing
- Bobtail trucks
- Boilers
- Combines
- Commercial food roasters
- Commercial heaters
- Commercial kitchen equipment
- Complex machinery
- Compressed natural gas fuel systems
- Compressed natural gas products
- Conveyors
- Crop insurance
- Electrical fires
- Ethanol plants
- Fans
- Fertilizers
- Flameless candles
- Food processing plants
- Food trucks
- Furnaces
- Grain dust explosions
- Grain elevators
- Grain vacuums
- Halogen bulb lamp fires
- Hospital beds
- Industrial equipment
- Lithium batteries
- Livestock barn heaters
- Listeria
- Meat grinder
- Natural gas fires and explosions
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Plumbing components
- Portable heaters
- Power washers
- Printing presses
- Processing plants
- Propane fires and explosions
- Propane and component part systems
- Regulators
- Running gear
- Saunas
- Sprayers
- Sprinkler/fire suppression systems
- Static electricity explosions
- Stoves
- Synthetic mesh
- Tool bars
- Tractors
- Truck scales
- Valves
- Vaporizers
- Vehicle accessories
- Water heaters
