Christopher Kendric

Christopher Kendric

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Christopher Kendric, a partner and trial attorney in the firm's Long Island, New York office, has over 20 years of experience handling a wide variety of products liability, professional malpractice, construction defect, and other significant-exposure cases for insured and self-insured clients. 

He is the exclusive general liability counsel to Domino's Pizza LLC in New York and New Jersey, and for the past ten years has successfully represented the company in numerous vehicular accident and premises liability cases, contractual claims involving its many franchisees, insurance coverage and lease disputes, subrogation matters and the occasional food adulteration case.

Christopher has also acted as exclusive general liability counsel to the Performance Transportation Services Group, the second largest transporter of new automobiles, sport-utility vehicles and light trucks in North America, representing its different member companies and drivers in personal injury, wrongful death and property damage cases throughout New York and New Jersey.

Christopher has prevailed in a number of high profile cases, including the following: 

  • On behalf of a national restaurant chain where an independent franchisee's employee was raped while working the overnight shift by herself.  The case was unique and had potentially far-reaching implications as plaintiff's theory against the company involved the fact that it specifically required the employer, by the terms of its franchise agreement, to maintain a twenty-four hour operation, and had made certain recommendations with respect to store security.
  • On behalf of a manufacturer of a chemical drain cleaner being used by a restaurant worker when he was blinded in both eyes and received severe burns to his face and neck.  It was successfully argued that plaintiff was the sole proximate cause of his accident by failing to follow regulatory-compliant warnings printed on the product's labeling.
  • In a fire loss case where he was successful in having the federal court overturn a $2,400,000 verdict after extensive post-trial motion practice, arguing that there had been insufficient evidence presented to the jury that his client, a "superstore" tenant in possession, had created a fire hazard by its manner of storing and displaying aerosol paint cans and other combustibles.
Professional Affiliations
  • Defense Research Institute: Professional Liability Committee; Steering Committee 
  • New York State Bar Association
Admitted to Practice
  • New York
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
Education
  • Fordham University, magna cum laude, B.A., 1985
  • University of Notre Dame School of Law, J.D., 1988
Publications/Presentations
  • Honing Your Deposition Skills in Tort and Personal Injury Cases, New York State Bar Association
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