Claire Breaux Ventola

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    Claire has extensive experience in the defense of complex litigation and general casualty cases involving product liability, premises liability, construction (representing contractors, subcontractors and product manufacturers) and personal injury.  She has also defended automobile cases, breach of contract cases, real estate appraisal cases and toxic tort cases involving benzene, asbestos and silica.

    Currently, Claire represents a major elevator and escalator manufacturer in Pennsylvania and an automatic door manufacturer in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  She also has experience representing manufacturers of HVAC systems, pesticides and chemical products, commercial appliances and respiratory protective equipment, as well as experience in defending a variety of defendants in general negligence cases.

    Upon obtaining her juris doctor from Boston University in 1995, Claire worked as a judicial clerk for the Supreme Court of Louisiana until 1996.  Thereafter, she was a shareholder at the defense law firm of Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois, Pfister & Weinstock in the greater New Orleans, Louisiana area, where she practiced for 12 years.  Claire has been with Marshall Dennehey since 2008. 

     

    Classes/Seminars Taught

    Personal Injury Law From Start to Finish: Law and Legislative Update, Sterling Educational Seminars, Philadelphia, PA, July 14, 2015

    Published Works

    “Park and Cross At Your Own Risk,” Defense Digest, Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2017 and Counterpoint, January 2018

    "The General Standards of OSHA and ANSI Do Not Preempt State Tort Claims Against Product Manufacturers in Pennsylvania," Defense Digest, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010
    Admissions
    Louisiana
    1995
    U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
    1995
    U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
    1995
    U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana
    1995
    Pennsylvania
    2008
    U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
    2008
    New Jersey
    2012
    U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    2010
    Education
    Boston University School of Law (J.D., 1995)
    Northwestern State University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1992)
    Associations & memberships
    American Bar Association, 1995
    Louisiana State Bar Association, 1995
    New Jersey Bar Association, 2012
    Pennsylvania Bar Association, 2008
    Philadelphia Bar Association, 2013
    Year joined
    2008