Cooper C. Thurber Email & Phone Number

Cooper Thurber practices in the area of commercial litigation. His practice concentrates in civil litigation, including product and professional liability, insurance coverage, bad faith, trucking, toxic tort, premises liability and banking law. He represents businesses and insurers in significant commercial and tort litigation. Clients have included insurers, manufacturers, universities, lawyers, judges and developers. Cooper has worked with insurance carriers as both coverage and extra contractual counsel for the past 30 years. He has defended commercial carriers in bad faith, fraud and breach of contract matters in courts throughout Alabama both state and local. He has put on numerous seminars for carriers on avoiding bad faith in Alabama under the L.&S. Roofing Doctrine. Cooper was President at Lyons, Pipes & Cook P.C. in Mobile before the firm joined Phelps Dunbar in 2010.

Listed skills include Litigation, Product Liability, Toxic Tort, Bad Faith, and 5 others.

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  Senior Partner

  Phelps Dunbar Llp

  Jul 2010 - Present - Mobile, Alabama Area

  - Represented Chinese company in acquisition of U.S. manufacturing company. - Successfully defended U.K. manufacturing company in 47 toxic tort cases involving carbon disulfide poisoning. - Defended products liability cases throughout the State of Alabama including chainsaws, after market pick-up truck performance enhancers, hair curlers, motor vehicle glazing, rocket launchers, football/racing helmets and many other products.- Successfully defended national grocery store chain in nationwide class action involving out-of-date food products. - Represented U.K. manufacturing company during plant closure and transfer of property to Mobile County in Greenfield State.- Defended numerous insurers in bad faith, extra contractual suites. - Successfully defended rayon manufacturer in suit arising from airborn emission claiming injury to livestock on adjoining farmland.