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.

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Attorneys Practicing
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Attorneys Practicing
In This Area

  • Zachary N. Leach Profile Pic
    Zachary N. Leach Profile Pic
    Zachary N. Leach

    Attorney

    Zach is an attorney based out of the Indianapolis Office who brings with him years of experience as in-house counsel for a large insurance company.

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    Tiffany R. Guthrie

    Attorney

    Tiffany Guthrie is an attorney in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray. She joined the firm after nearly three years of experience as an administrative law Judge for the Department of Workforce Development, wherein she presided over matters of unemployment disputes. Prior to serving as an Administrative Law Judge, Tiffany represented plaintiffs in personal injury matters throughout the greater Indianapolis area.

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    Thomas J. Jarzyniecki Profile Pic
    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  • Michael Wroblewski Profile Pic
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    Michael Wroblewski

    Senior Partner

    Mike Wroblewski is an attorney in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray, and serves as Chair of the firm’s Transportation Practice Group. He currently focuses his practice on defending individual and corporate clients in personal injury litigation. He routinely appears before State and Federal courts, and has been admitted to practice law in Indiana and Illinois. Mike has extensive jury and bench trial experience and has tried over 20 trials to verdict.  Mike is a member of various legal and professional organizations, including the Construction Lawyers Society of America (CLSA), and is an active member of the community.

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    Matthew J. Goldsmith

    Attorney

    Matt is an associate attorney in Kightlinger & Gray’s Indianapolis office. Prior to joining the firm, Matt was a Deputy Attorney General in the Indiana office of the Attorney General’s Government Litigation section. In that role, Matt gained extensive federal and state court experience in a variety of areas representing state agencies and state employees including 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims, small claims, habeas and post-conviction relief petitions, and petitions for removal from the Sex and Violent Offender registry. Matt also clerked in the Appeals section of the Attorney General’s office in law school, where he worked on civil and criminal appeals in state and federal courts.

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    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.

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    Jeffrey D. Hawkins

    Senior Partner

    Jeff Hawkins is a member of Kightlinger & Gray’s five-member Management Committee and a seasoned trial attorney with extensive experience in complex litigation and catastrophic loss defense. He routinely represents national retailers, hoteliers, and professionals in matters involving bodily injury, property damage, indemnity, defamation, invasion of privacy, and legal malpractice.

  • J. Todd Spurgeon Profile Pic
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    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.

  • Ashley N. Canan Profile Pic
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    Ashley N. Canan

    Attorney

    Ashley Canan is an associate in our Indianapolis office and joined the firm in 2021. Ashley’s prior experience includes interning with Lake County Prosecutor’s Office in the felony division, CLEO internship program with the Court of Appeals of Indiana, family law with a prestigious firm in Chicago, and working on the other side of defense work with plaintiff’s personal injury firms in Indianapolis.

Product Liability
Legal Services

Product Liability Legal Services

Design, manufacturing, and warning defect defense
Defense of industrial and consumer product claims
Product recall and crisis management litigation
Fire and explosion-related liability
Expert retention and technical investigations
Subrogation and contribution disputes