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H PCB : D Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler-, PLLC
<br />The Law Firm of Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler, PLLC, began in 1980, when senior partner, R. Edison Hill,
<br />departed a large corporate and insurance defense firm to begin a small personal injury practice. The firm's attorneys represent
<br />individuals and families in many diverse areas of complex litigation including water contamination, personal injury,
<br />pharmaceutical and defective medical devices, and medical malpractice. The firm's attorneys were awarded the prestigious
<br />Trial Lawyer of the Year award by Public Justice in 2005 for their work on the successful class action litigation Leach, et al. v.
<br />E. L du Pont de Nemours and Company involving representation of plaintiffs who suffered various cancers and other illnesses
<br />due to exposure through drinking water to the chemical ammonium perfluorooctanoate ( "PFOA" or "C -8 "), a chemical utilized
<br />in the manufacture of Teflon. The firm's attorneys also served on the Plaintiffs Steering Committee for In re: E. I. Dupont de
<br />Nemours and Company C -8 Personal Injury Litigation, which has reached a global settlement of close to $1 billion. Hill,
<br />Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler, PLLC, has been designated by `Benchmark Plaintiff' (The Definitive Guide To American
<br />Leading Plaintiff Firms & Attorneys) as one of West Virginia's three top and "highly recommended" litigation law firms.
<br />R. Edison (Ed) Hill is a trial attorney and the founder and a member /partner of Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee
<br />& Deitzler, PLLC. Mr. Hill has served as class action counsel for numerous certified class actions,
<br />including Burch, et al. v. American Home Products Corp, et al. (Fen -Phen Diet Drug Litigation), the
<br />largest pharmaceutical class action in the history of West Virginia, and Leach, et al. v. E. I. du Pont de
<br />Nemours and Company. He also serves on the Plaintiffs Steering Committee for In re: E. I. Dupont de
<br />Nemours and Company C -8 Personal Injury Litigation, which recently reached a settlement valued at
<br />nearly $1 billion. Mr. Hill was named as one of "America's 100 Most Influential Trial Lawyers" by The
<br />Trial Lawyer's RoundTable in 2017 and has been designated as one of West Virginia's twelve "Litigation
<br />Stars" by Benchmark Plaintiff (The Definitive Guide To American Leading Plaintiff Firms & Attorneys).
<br />He has also been named as a Fellow of the West Virginia Bar Foundation, awarded to "lawyers whose
<br />professional, public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and
<br />honorable service to the legal profession with the individuals selected reflecting the diverse nature of the legal profession in
<br />West Virginia." Mr. Hill is involved in many legal professional organizations, including American Association for Justice (Life
<br />Member), National Trial Lawyers Association (Executive Committee Member), West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Past -
<br />President and current Board of Governors member), Public Justice Foundation, Lawyer- Pilots Bar Association, Southern Trial
<br />Lawyers Association and the Consumer Attorneys of West Virginia. He has been named a West Virginia Super Lawyer® each
<br />year from 2009 the present. He also serves as Chairman for the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority, which is the
<br />governing board for Yeager Airport, located in Charleston, West Virginia. He has served on the Yeager Airport Board of
<br />Directors since 1993.
<br />James C. Peterson has been a member /partner at Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler, PLLC since 1983,
<br />focusing his legal practice on litigation of severe personal injury, medical /legal malpractice, product
<br />liability, insurance bad faith, mass tort/class action involving defective products, pharmaceuticals and
<br />insurance issues. He served as co -lead counsel for on the settlement of the largest pharmaceutical class
<br />action litigation in the history of the State of West Virginia, involving the diet drug Fen -Phen (Burch, et al.
<br />v. American Home Products Corporation, et al.). Settlements and verdicts handled on behalf of his firm
<br />Hill & Peterson or on a co- counsel basis exceeds $1.6 billion. Representative mass tort/class action in
<br />addition to Burch includes McCallister, et al., v. Purdue - Pharma, Inc., et al. (Oxycontin - potent pain killer
<br />drug); VIOXX Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1657 (osteo - arthritic pain medication); In Re: E. I.
<br />Dupont de Nemours and Company C -8 Personal Injury Litigation, MDL 2433 (involving representation of
<br />3,500 plaintiffs who suffered various cancers and other illnesses due to exposure to C -8, a chemical used in the manufacture of
<br />Teflon, in public drinking water; global settlement reach in 2017 for close to $1 billion.); and Good v. American Water Works
<br />Company, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:14 -CV -01374 (putative class alleging economic and personal injury loss due to water
<br />contamination, tentative settlement reached Fall 2016, for over 250,000 residents and businesses in the 9 -county area). Mr.
<br />Peterson has been board- certified as a civil trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) since 1990; named
<br />member of the year by the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association in both 1988 and 1993; served in a variety of positions with
<br />both state and national trial lawyer organizations, including president of the West Virginia Trial Lawyers' Association (1996-
<br />1997); and admitted to practice in the states of Minnesota, Ohio, and West Virginia. Since 1987, Mr. Peterson has presented
<br />over 40 papers and articles nationwide on various legal topics in over two dozen states. He authored a chapter for a National
<br />Brain Injury Association publication involving hedonic damages, and an article on the same for TRIAL Magazine (published by
<br />American Association for Justice). Mr. Peterson is recognized as a life member of American Association for Justice (AAJ), an
<br />honor bestowed on approximately 50 lawyers for that nationwide trial organization. He was selected in 2005, along with two of
<br />his partners Ed Hill and Harry Deitzler, as Trial Lawyers of the Year by Public Justice.
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