Product Liability
Product Liability
Technical. Tactical. Trial-Tested.
Defending manufacturers, distributors, and insurers in complex product claims.
Overview 
Kightlinger & Gray defends clients in product liability litigation involving alleged product defects, deficient warnings, and catastrophic failures. We represent manufacturers, component suppliers, and distributors across various industries.
Our team is experienced in forensic expert and in-house expert coordination, recall-related litigation, and class action defense. We work to resolve disputes diligently while preparing every case as if it will go to trial.
Attorneys Practicing
In This Area
Attorneys Practicing
In This Area
Thomas J. Jarzyniecki, Jr
Senior Partner
TJ Jarzyniecki is a member of Kightlinger & Gray’s five-member Management Committee. He devotes much of his practice to, and therefore has extensive experience with, fire-related matters. He routinely handles large losses involving fires and explosions causing personal injuries, fatalities and property damage. He uses his more than 30 years of experience to spearhead pre-suit investigations, including evidence preservation, expert retention and early claim evaluation.
Yes
R. Jeffrey Lowe
Senior Partner
Jeff Lowe is a partner at Kightlinger & Gray in New Albany, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. He is chair of the Employment and Civil Rights practice group. He regularly defends governmental entities and their employees throughout Southern Indiana and Kentucky. His practice focuses on defense of governmental entities and their employees on issues ranging from constitutional torts to zoning matters to employment issues, as well as state law claims made against his governmental clients.
Yes
Pfenne P. Cantrell
Senior Partner
Based in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray, Pfenne Cantrell handles complex litigation including Construction, Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith, Subrogation and Fire-related casualties, Product Liability, Securities, and Aviation cases. An economics major as an undergrad, Pfenne uses the knowledge and skills he learned to approach complex matters in a thorough, yet concise manner.
Yes
Jonathan O. Chenoweth
Attorney
Jonathan Chenoweth earned his J.D. from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law. From 2004 to 2021, he worked at the Office of the Public Defender of Indiana, concentrating on indigent defense and appellate practice. Between 2023 and 2025, he served as an adjunct professor at McKinney’s Wrongful Conviction Clinic, supervising students appearing in trial courts throughout Indiana. In 2025, Jonathan joined Kightlinger & Gray, where his practice focuses on insurance defense litigation.
Yes
J. Todd Spurgeon
Senior Partner
Todd Spurgeon is a litigator with significant trial experience. He routinely appears in State and Federal courts, handling a wide range of insurance defense matters. Todd is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, which is only open to those with significant jury trial experience and high personal character and reputation. Todd is a board member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, and is a past president of the Indiana State Bar Association.
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