Edward A. Smallwood

Edward A. Smallwood is a Principal in the firm's Casualty Litigation Department and represents and defends clients in premises liability, products liability, trucking liability, and toxic tort liability matters, and related litigation. His clients include energy and utility companies, including electric utilities and oil, mining, construction, and transportation companies. He also handles all phases of litigation and serves as National Coordinating Counsel overseeing toxic tort litigation throughout the country.

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• Obtained complete indemnification on behalf of electrical utility client from contractor whose employee was killed in a fall at client’s power station.
• Received defense verdict in bench trial on behalf client in claim brought by telecommunications company alleging that client had damaged underground lines during maintenance activities.
• Obtained favorable settlement in electrocution case in which an employee of a telephone company was killed when attempting to raise telephone and cable lines and came into contact with electrical utility primary line.
• Favorably resolved wrongful death case in which electrical utility client employee was killed when the crane he was operating overturned.
• Won summary judgment in electrical contact matter in which plaintiff came into contact with client’s transmission line while delivering construction materials.
• Obtained summary judgment in a claim filed in Allegheny County involving a contractor who claims he sustained an electrical contact injury while performing surveying work in Indiana County.
• Obtained very favorable settlement of a plaintiff injured when he attempted to raise electrical utility lines with a bungee cord in order to allow access from a utility shed on a golf course.
• Secured summary judgment in Erie County for a wrongful death claim arising from a house fire that occurred on decedent’s grandfather’s farm.
• Obtained a defense verdict in the Western District of Pennsylvania federal court for a Houston, Texas-based American multinational corporation that is a worldwide provider of equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production operations, oilfield services, and supply chain integration services involving property damage claim and violation of a commercial lease.
• Obtained defense verdict for a ladder manufacturer case tried in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania involving claim of a then three-year-old girl who accessed a swimming pool and suffered catastrophic brain injuries; after a two-week trial the jury returned a verdict of $51 million against other defendants but found in favor of our client.