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Eric Horne conducts a multi-state trial practice with extensive experience as lead trial attorney in individual and mass tort cases alleging toxic exposures. His clients include Fortune 200 businesses, and smaller companies, including makers of industrial equipment, marine equipment, motor vehicles and friction materials. Eric has also successfully represented individual plaintiffs and defendants in legal, medical and financial malpractice actions and contract claims.
- Served as lead trial counsel in numerous cases and jurisdictions: California, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi and Pennsylvania;
- Trials to verdict in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Mississippi and Wisconsin;
- Concentrating on the defense of individual and corporate clients, has litigated through trial, product liability claims alleging industrial and environmental exposures to metals, asbestos, chemicals and building materials;
- Works with client legal staff to design and execute complex defense strategies for manufacturers of industrial equipment, motor vehicles and friction materials;
- Reported federal and Pennsylvania appellate decisions: Lindstrom v. AC Prod. Liability Trust, 264 F.Supp 2d 583 (ND OH, 2003), aff’d 424 F.3d 488 (CA OH, 2004)(component part liability), Jobe v. WP Metz Refining, et al., 664 A.2d 1015 (PaSuper 1995)(cadmium exposure); Degenhardt v. The Dillon Company, 669 A.2d 946 (Pa 1996)(doctrine of “economic distress”).
Litigation
Mass Tort Litigation
Product Liability
J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1982
M.A., The Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania, 1979
B.A., Princeton University, 1975
Pennsylvania
All Pennsylvania state and federal courts
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Circuits
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations
Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County
Selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
- Authored articles in the Tort & Insurance Law Journal and The Legal Intelligencer.
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