About
Dave Carriger has practiced law with the firm since 1996. He focuses his practice primarily on personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability, and toxic torts. Dave helped pioneer products liability litigation against mobile mining equipment manufacturers who failed to include proximity detection technology on their machines, which severely injured and killed coal miners. Dave was a lead attorney for the firm in class-action litigation against the Monsanto Company related to its dioxin contamination of the City of Nitro, West Virginia, and its residents. He has also litigated similar environmental contamination cases around the nation. During his free time, Dave enjoys roaming the West Virginia outdoors with his family, roots for West Virginia University's sports teams, and valiantly attempts to keep up with his teenage children's high school activities. He resides with his wife and children in Charleston.
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
Education
Areas of Practice
- Personal Injury
- Medical Malpractice
- Products Liability
- Toxic Torts
- Environmental Law
- Wage and Hour / Employment Law
Reported Cases
- Rucker v. Deere & Co. (In re Rucker), 208 W. Va. 169 (2000)
- Jeffers v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 171 F. Supp. 2d 617 (S.D. W. Va. 2001)
- McDavid v. United States, 213 W. Va. 592 (2003)
- McDavid v. United States, 292 F. Supp. 2d (S.D. W. Va. 2003)
- Tolley v. Monsanto Co., 591 F. Supp. 2d 837 (S.D. W. Va. 2008)
- Carter v. Monsanto Co., 635 F. Supp. 2d 479 (S.D. W. Va. 2009)
- Carter v. Monsanto Co., 212 W. Va. 732 (2002)
- Old Republic Ins. Co. v. O'Neal, 237 W. Va. 512 (2016)
- Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc. v. PDR Network, LLC, 883 F.3d 459 (4th Cir. 2018)
- Lewis v. Armstrong Steel Erectors, 992 F. Supp. 842 (S.D. W. Va. 1998)
- Lee-Bolton v. Koppers Inc., 319 F.R.D. 346 (N.D. Fla. 2017)
- State ex rel. Mitchem v. Kirkpatrick, 199 W. Va. 501 (1997)
- Burton v. United States, 199 F.R.D. 194 (S.D. W. Va. 2001)
Unpublished Cases
- Agee v. Monsanto Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106328 (S.D. W. Va. 2010)
- O'Neal v. Speed Mining LLC, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105847 (S.D. W. Va. 2010)
- Spaulding v. Monsanto Co., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 110537 (S.D.N.Y. 2011)
- Allen v. Monsanto Co., 2013 W. Va. LEXIS 1384
Memberships
- Injury Board
- West Virginia Association for Justice
Honors
- Notable Peer Rated for Strong Ethical Standards – Martindale-Hubbell
- America's Most Honored Professionals, Top 5% (2018-2019)
- American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys, 10 Best Law Firm for Client Satisfaction in Personal Injury (2019-2020)