HB&B has developed a nationally recognized pharmaceutical and medical device practice. Our attorneys have represented health industry clients for the past thirty years on a wide variety of drugs, devices, biologicals, and food supplements. We have defended virtually all mass-tort litigation encountered by our clients, including breast implants, latex gloves, diet drugs, Bendectine, DES, pedicle screws, thimerol vaccines, and many others. HB&B attorneys specialize in the defense of the pharmaceutical and medical device, biological and food supplement industries. We collectively represent or have represented our clients' interests in each of the courts in the State of California.
HB&B attorneys are well known for its appellate practice. Our aggressiveness in the defense of our clients has resulted in a number of published opinions favorable to the health care industry. Some of our most recognized work in this regard persuaded the California Supreme Court to eliminate strict product design liability as to pharmaceuticals, Brown v. Superior Court (1986) 44 Cal.3d 1044. We were also successful in convincing an appellate court to expand this doctrine to implanted medical devices, Artiglio v. Superior Court (1994) 22 Cal.App.4th 1388. Our appellate practice has also substantially strengthened enforcement of the one-year statute of limitations governing personal injury lawsuits brought against drug and device manufacturers, Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court (1995) 32 Cal. App.4th 959.
