Erik David Nadolink

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Cases: Erik ( Rick ) Nadolink defends companies
  individuals in high-stakes product liability, toxic tort,
  medical malpractice lawsuits. He has successfully defended clients in multibillion-dollar litigation
  won high-exposure trials in seven states.
  Successfully tried high exposure cases to defense verdicts for national defendants in California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Ohio,
  Virginia.
  Won summary judgment motions in many jurisdictions, including most recently briefing
  argument before the MDL in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on a complex issue concerning the government contractor defense as it applies to equipment manufacturers in asbestos litigation, potentially impacting hundreds or even thous
  s of similar cases currently pending before the panel.
  First
  second-chaired additional high exposure trials to favorable mid-trial resolutions in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
  South Carolina among others.
  Taken
  defended hundreds of critical fact, corporate,
  expert depositions in dozens of high exposure products liability
  medical malpractice cases.
  Mediated favorable resolutions in numerous high exposure products liability
  medical malpractice cases in various federal
  state jurisdictions throughout the country.
  Managed discovery
  trial preparation in hundreds of cases set for trial for several national asbestos litigation clients, as well as numerous hospitals, doctors,
  other healthcare providers in medical malpractice cases.
  Sawyer v. Foster Wheeler (Fourth Cir. 2017) - Won for Foster Wheeler in an asbestos failure to warn case involving the government contractor defense. The Fourth Circuit reversed
  rem
  ed to the district court following WTO's arguments that evidence set forth by Foster Wheeler was sufficient to demonstrate a colorable defense establishing federal jurisdiction.
  Ripley v. Foster Wheeler (4th Cir. 2016) - Won for Foster Wheeler in an asbestos failure to warn case involving the government contractor defense. The Fourth Circuit reversed
  rem
  ed to the district court following WTO's arguments in this matter of first impression.
  Obtained summary judgment in an asbestos product liability case on behalf of General Electric Company in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Wyoming.
  Mulcahy v. Rapid American (Ill. Cook Cnty. Cir.Ct.) - Won a jury verdict in Cook County, Illinois, for General Electric in an asbestos duty to warn case involving power plant l
  turbines.
  Pelletier v. Alfa Laval (Cal. Sup.Ct.) - Won a defense jury verdict for Leslie Controls, the sole remaining defendant at trial after other defendants settled. A jury deliberated for just 20 minutes before deciding our client was not liable for the plaintiff's mesothelioma.
  Shaw v. Pizza Hut (M.D. Fla. 2009) - Won a defense verdict for Pizza Hut/Yum! Br
  s in liability case stemming from an automobile accident involving a delivery driver.
  Stewart v. Foster Wheeler (D. Iowa 2008) - Won a defense jury verdict for Foster Wheeler in the first asbestos wrongful death case tried to a verdict in Iowa in over 10 years.
  Won a defense verdict after five weeks of trial in Massachusetts in a living mesothelioma case, the first asbestos case tried to verdict in Boston in 10 years.
  Successfully briefed
  argued two writs to the Supreme Court of Virginia.