Kevin R. Dean Member Motley Rice, Mount Pleasant

Kevin Dean has a reputation as an effective trial attorney who has achieved success in catastrophic injury, products liability, and wrongful death cases.

A member at Motley Rice, Dean has extensive experience litigating vehicle defect cases and served on the trust advisory committee for victims of deadly airbags throughout Takata Corporation’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy. He also advocates for consumers harmed by explosive ARC airbag inflators and non-deploying airbags, and in 2023 was appointed to serve on the plaintiffs’ leadership committee for the ARC Inflators MDL No. 3051 in the Northern District of Georgia.

Besides his vehicle defect work, Dean is a key member of the Motley Rice team representing individuals who were exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. He serves on the Camp Lejeune Litigation Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee.

Dean was also the lead plaintiffs’ counsel in a wrongful death and negligence case against Sofa Super Store, contractors and furniture manufacturers brought by the families of nine firefighters who died in the 2007 Sofa Superstore warehouse fire.