David W Zoll

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Toledo Ohio Heparin Civil Trial Lawyers & Atttorneys

The attorneys at Zoll, Kranz and Borgess, LLC of Toledo, Ohio are civil trial lawyers - Currenly working on the Heparin Class Action Lawsuit. As civil trial lawyers we believe in the right of ordinary Americans to seek redress for injury to their person, property, or business, to work in safe workplaces free from discrimination or harassment, to be safe from dangerous products, and to receive quality health care from competent providers.

Areas of Practoce
* Dangerous Drugs, Medical Devices & Consumer Products (MDL/Mass Tort)
* Antitrust Litigation
* Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
* Product Liability
* Professional Malpractice
* ERISA/Securities
* Construction Law
* Municipal Law
* Employment Law
* Airport Noise/Nuisance

Zoll, Kranz & Borgess
6620 W Central Ave #200
Toledo OH 43617
Tel: 419 841-9623; 888 841-9623
Fax: 419 841-9719
E-mail: david@toledolaw.com

Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer - National Board of Legal Specialty Certification

David W. Zoll is a 1976 graduate of the University of Toledo College of Law, and 1974 graduate of the University of Cincinnati. He is a partner in the law firm of Zoll, Kranz & Borgess, LLC, with a practice in civil litigation. He has practiced law in Toledo, Ohio since his admission to the Ohio Bar on May 6, 1977.

Zoll is certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (“NBTA”) as a Civil Trial Advocate. The National Board of Trial Advocacy is authorized by the Ohio Supreme Court to certify specialists in the field of trial advocacy. He is also on the Board of Examiners of the NBTA. He wrote and graded the Commercial Law (2005), Civil Ethics (2007) and Evidence (2008) questions for the nationwide examinations for board certification.

Zoll is admitted to the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the Sixth and Seventh Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Federal District Courts of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Arkansas, and the United States Tax Court, as well as the Ohio Supreme Court. He has been a member of the American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America) since 1981, and is a member of the Ohio Association for Justice as well as the Toledo and Ohio Bar Associations.

He has spoken before the Ohio State Bar Association, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, Lucas County Bar Association, Toledo Bar Association, Construction Financial Managers Association, Ohio Society of CPA’s, Association of General Contractors and at numerous continuing education seminars.

Zoll has handled a number of cases before the Ohio Supreme Court, including the landmark case of Anderson v. Ceccardi, 6 Ohio St.3d 110, 451 N.E.2d 780 (Ohio 1983), in which the doctrine of assumption of the risk was merged into the statutory tort scheme of comparative fault.

Zoll was special counsel on behalf of Plaintiffs in In re: Inter-Op Hip Prosthesis Liability Litigation (Sulzer). MDL Docket No. 01-CV-9000 and is currently on the Discovery Committee in In re: Vioxx ® Products Liability Litigation MDL Docket No. 1657. He currently serves as Liaison Counsel for Plaintiffs In re: Heparin Products Liability Litigation MDL Docket No. 1953. He is co-chair of the AAJ Heparin Litigation Group.

Zoll, Kranz & Borgess filed the first lawsuits in the country in the Heparin litigation. Three of their clients testified before Congress on April 29, 2008 in the The Heparin Disaster: Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures hearing held by the House Oversight and Investigation Committee, chaired by the Hon. Bart Stupak (Michigan).

Zoll has trial experience in Florida, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, and Indiana, as well as throughout the state of Ohio. He has obtained a number of verdicts and settlements in excess of one million dollars on behalf of his clients.

Married to Myra (Gerber) Zoll, 1973. They have two children: Benjamin, an honors graduate of Hamilton College and the University of Washington, and Sarah, an honors graduate of Wellesley College and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and three grandchildren.

Zoll was appointed by the Lucas County Commissioners to the Board of the Lucas County Mental Health and Recovery Services, and previously served on the Lucas County Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Board. He served on the special committee to merge the latter board with the former Mental Health Board. He currently serves as a trustee of the Toledo Council of Newspaper Unions-Toledo Blade Pension Plan. He has served on the Boards of the following charitable or religious organizations: Board of Directors Camp Storer-Toledo YMCA; Beach House Family Shelter; and Christ Presbyterian Church Board of Deacons.

A list of the articles, speeches and presentations made by Zoll is available on request.