The firm is best known for helping mesothelioma victims and leading national product liability cases. Rogers, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman is a plaintiff law firm with extensive experience in complex litigation across a diverse array of practice areas. We are frequently selected to hold leadership positions in class actions and MDLs. With a network of co-counsel partners across the country, we ha
ve the knowledge, ability and resources to investigate and litigate throughout the United States. Our pharmaceutical team has played played integral roles in the $700 million Zyprexa and $273 million Chantix settlements, serving on both MDLs’ national plaintiff’s steering committees. Past notable steering committee appointments include: Baycol, Ortho Evra, Phenylpropanolamine (PPA), ReNu, Rezulin and the Norplant contraceptive system. Our firm was co-lead counsel for McKesson Governmental Entities Average Wholesale Price Litigation, in which the drug distributor was accused of inflating its wholesale prices in order to overcharge governmental entities. The case settled for $82 million. In South Carolina, we were lead counsel in Ferrell v. Horry Electric Cooperative, a class action suit concerning an energy efficiency program that encouraged defective renovations that promoted mold growth in homes. The suit was settled in 2014 for $6 million. The firm is heavily involved in financial litigation, including consumer lending, banking and securities. We are counsel in Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, which at $5.7 billion, was the largest the largest-ever monetary settlement of private antitrust litigation. Our team is involved in many of the major issues confronting our financial system. Pending financial matters include allegations of an unfair stock-trading advantage to high-speed traders who purchase faster access to the stock exchange and a breach of fiduciary responsibility to shareholders of PIMCO. The bond fund charged shareholders $1.2 billion in fees and compensated its top executives $1.5 billion in 2013 while the fund fell 1.92 percent and trailed 70 percent of its peers. We also litigate many catastrophic personal injury cases, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, environmental degradation and mesothelioma claims. RPWB was formed in 2002 by a group of attorneys who had built the reputation of being skilled, principled and tenacious. Their experience included working the most significant litigation against what was then our nation’s biggest health crisis: to***co use. The cases led to the To***co Master Settlement Agreement, which has compensated states for healthcare costs and funded nationwide anti-smoking campaigns. Others had made a name for themselves by litigating asbestos, catastrophic personal injury, products liability and pharmaceutical cases. The result is a law firm that is skilled and experienced enough to take on big, complicated cases in South Carolina and beyond.
