Cosmetic Industry Class Actions: Navigating New Risks Under Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act

Mr. Gottfried focuses his practice on health care, as well as administrative and regulatory matters. He represents clients such as executives at large physician practice groups and hospital chains, compounding pharmacies, managed care organizations, ambulatory surgical centers, and home health agencies. Mr. Gottfried has experience working with numerous federal and state governmental agencies, and handles matters concerning the federal and Florida Anti-Kickback Statutes, the federal Stark Law, the federal and Florida False Claims Act, the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, Florida’s Patient Brokering Act, and various hospital and physician billing laws and regulations.

Ms. Kolton has wide-ranging legal, administrative and management experience in medical practice law; HIPAA, Stark, Medicare and CMS regulations; with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); and other civil and administrative law areas. She possesses executive corporate experience and broad clinical background in a variety of health care settings, including the ability to understand scientific and medical community cultures, business challenges and concerns.

Ms. Miller is the Co-Chair of the Products Liability & Mass Torts Practice and focuses her practice in toxic tort, product liability, and class action litigation in state and federal courts. She is a trial lawyer with experience, both as first and second chair trial counsel, defending manufacturers against claims of product defect for industrial, automotive, and medical products on a national basis. As national counsel, Ms. Miller oversees products liability, toxic tort, and commercial litigation nationwide and counsels clients on risk management strategies. She also has wide-ranging experience litigating complex and mass tort litigation, both in the products liability and toxic tort context. In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Miller counsels manufacturers, distributors and retailers regarding product safety issues and regulatory compliance. Her practice includes counseling clients on compliance with federal and state regulations, including regulations enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and providing guidance with recalls and recall procedures.

Ms. Pigott provides critical product liability advice and litigation defense to emerging and established businesses. As a shareholder in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice, she manages products liability litigation matters with an emphasis on the defense of complex medical device and pharmaceutical products. Ms. Pigott handles high-stakes, single-plaintiff cases (including through trial) and complex litigation, including MDLs, coordinated state actions and class actions working as both national and regional counsel. She also works with companies to reduce and eliminate litigation risk through essential assessment and review of potential product liability exposure, including helping to organize and establish more effective claims handling in pre-litigation as well as in identifying and reducing risk producing activities and providing information to allow companies to understand triggers for potential exposure and manage such risks. In addition, Ms. Pigott has worked on a wide variety of other product liability matters, including welding products and consumables, automobiles, buses and private shuttles, airplanes, helicopters, rocket propelled parachute systems, soft drinks, and video games.