E-mail Ed Starnes
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Telephone: 256-535-1100
Facsimile: 256-533-9322
Street Address:
Suite 102
2101 West Clinton Avenue
Huntsville, AL 35805
Mailing Address:
Post Office Box 2087
Huntsville, AL 35804-2087
Mr. Starnes, as a shareholder in the firm of Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne, has defended employment claims for the past 30 years. His experience in handling employment-related matters includes an active trial practice throughout Alabama. He regularly lectures on employment- related issues.
As the designated lead counsel for a number of insurance carriers and self-insured corporations, Mr. Starnes is responsible for defending serious commercial and personal injury claims against domestic and foreign companies throughout the northern half of Alabama. He has defended multi-party claims (blasting, flooding), wrongful death (industrial accidents, tractor-trailer fatalities), defective products (mobile homes, houses, cars), fraud (car sales and leases, commercial sales), and product liability (consumer products, chemicals, electrical wiring, food processing equipment, printing and punch presses, and so forth).
Defending claims arising out of the workplace is the focus of Mr. Starnes’ practice. He has extensive experience in defense of employment-related economic and personal injury claims, including workers’ compensation, retaliatory discharge and employment discrimination claims against employers, willful conduct claims against supervisors and managers, and product-liability claims against manufacturers of industrial equipment. In addition to serving as lead trial counsel, Mr. Starnes has resolved claims through mediation and arbitration, and has counseled clients in coordination of their defense of tort claims with corollary matters, including OSHA investigations, EEOC claims, and other governmental investigations.
