Brent D. Anderson

Product Liability Litigation

• Won a multi-week jury trial for a product manufacturer in Kansas wherein it was alleged that the client’s product started a fire that lead to the deaths of three children and a handicapped adult.
• Won a multi-week asbestos trial in Philadelphia after being brought in to try the case less than two months before trial.
• Represented a product manufacturer in a trial brought by the widow of a firefighter who was electrocuted while responding to a fire scene.
• Obtained a directed verdict in a product liability suit in Oregon.
• Won a defense verdict in Texas in a triple-death case where a custom engineered piece of tooling failed, dropping three workers to their death in the river below.
• Successfully defended product manufacturer in Colorado by striking all of its fire experts and winning summary judgment.  The order was affirmed on appeal by the Tenth Circuit, and the standards for proper fire investigation were ultimately incorporated into NFPA 921.
• Successfully represented truck manufacturer at trial in Colorado federal court where the jury was out a mere 17 minutes before returning a full defense verdict.
• Represented product importer in wrongful death case in Kentucky at trial that settled very favorably after the cross of the plaintiffs’ key witness.
• Successfully defended product manufacturer in a property damage trial in Las Vegas.

Personal Injury Litigation

• Defended a driver in Texas where the plaintiff, a surgeon claiming he’d never work again, was awarded 1% of what was offered in settlement and less than .01% of what the jury was asked to award.
• Represented a truck driver in a wrongful death bike/truck accident in San Francisco.
• Represented a shipper in a wrongful death trial in Missouri.
• Represented a truck driver in a traumatic amputation motorcycle/truck accident trial in Las Vegas where the plaintiff was awarded nothing for pain and suffering.
• National coordinating counsel for a series of cases arising out of sexual molestation by a counselor at a summer camp over a nearly decade long period.

Fraud Litigation

• Successfully defended auto dealership in fraud case in Colorado.

• Taylor Anderson blog – Indiana Court Ruling Opens Internal Accident Investigations to Jury Scrutiny
• The Daubert Compendium, The DRI Defense Library Series, 2002, 2004, 2006
• Learning the Science Behind Product Liability Law, Inside the Minds–Leading Product Liability Lawyers, 2003
• Is Your Business Prepared to Face Natural Disaster, The Boulder County Business Report, May 31, 2002
• Expert Witnesses and Insurance Coverage Litigation, Journal of Insurance Coverage, Vol. 3, No. 4, Autumn, 2000
• Farmers Truck Ins. Exchange v. MagneTek, 306 F.3d 1206, 10th Cir., 2004
• Pee v. American Family, No. 00-1323, 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 15354, 10th Cir. July 3, 2001

• Colorado Bar Association
• State Bar of Nevada
• State Bar of Texas
• American Bar Association, Tort and Insurance Section
• Defense Research Institute, Daubert Editorial Board Member, Chair of “Fit” Committee
• National Fire Protection Association
• Denver Bar Association

• Junior Achievement of Colorado, 2000 – 2008
• Teacher and Member, Rainmakers Committee Colorado State Banking Commission, Board of Directors, 2004 – 2007