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Mr. Sledge has a broad, civil trial practice focused primarily on commercial litigation, insurance law, product liability, and warranty litigation. He represents businesses in a wide range of contract and commercial disputes. He handles claims and insurance coverage actions under various insurance products, including directors and officers, commercial general liability and professional liability. He advises clients on insurance matters, including the duty to defend, duty to pay, and handing of claims. Mr. Sledge also represents a variety of product manufacturers in personal injury and product liability matters, including medical device manufacturers, a pharmaceutical company, manufactured home producers and an industrial pipe and valve manufacturer. Mr. Sledge has litigated cases in the federal courts in Alabama and Tennessee and the Eleventh Circuit and in the state court in many of Alabama's counties. Representative Cases: Product Liability Defended drug manufacturer in cases involving weight loss medications. Obtained favorable settlement for defendant product manufacturer in Tennessee Federal Court in alleged vending machine electrocution case. Defending product manufacturer in alleged valve defect case. Defending oil and petroleum company in alleged wrongful death and personal injury suit arising out of offshore accident. Defending medical device manufacturer in Alabama federal court, where plaintiff alleged the Trochanteric Fixation Nail (TFN) was defective, causing TFN failure. Insurance Represented company in alleged reimbursement suit by liability insurers arising out of a settlement of a wrongful death action. Represented energy company against five liability insurers for failure to defend and indemnify arising out of catastrophic personal injury suit. Participated in defense of eighteen former directors and current and former officers of healthcare company arising out of alleged accounting fraud scandel against D&O carriers. General/Commercial Litigation Defending aircraft service provider arising out of claims pertaining to aircraft service agreement. Represented clients in several contract cases involving the enforceability of liquidated damages clauses. Represented various clients in construction related disputes involving contractual and real property lien rights. Representing manufactured home defendant in the trial courts and in the arbitral forum where individual and class plaintiffs allege various common law and statutory claims arising from purportedly defective homes. Prior To Maynard Cooper: After graduate schooling and training at the United States Military Academy, Mr. Sledge served with the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia as an armor platoon leader, infantry mortar platoon leader, assistant battalion operations officer and battalion logistics officer.
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