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Products Liability
Product makers and sellers are legally responsible
for injuries caused by defects in the design or construction of
a product which causes injury or death.
Ordinary consumers are entitled to expect
products that have been designed and built to be reasonably safe.
Any product which causes serious injury or death when it is being
used in a reasonably foreseeable way is not a reasonably safe
product.
Product makers and sellers often blame the
consumer when their products cause serious injury. They
will claim that "common sense" should have prevented
the injury.
However, engineers who design products and
safety experts who study human behavior know that many hazards
are not obvious, and that the true solution to the prevention
of injuries and deaths from potentially dangerous products is
in the application of careful and thorough technologies and science.
Product design is a highly technical field, and so is the safety
of people around products.
Many good businesses operate within these
rules and never have a problem with serious injuries and deaths
caused by unreasonably dangerous products.
Others seem to be habitual offenders because
of their refusal to take the steps and expend the resources necessary
to assure their products are safe. In those instances, the
only remedy for injured persons and their families is the kind
of legal claim that we typically handle. Moreover, the prospect
of being held accountable by a jury of ordinary citizens is the
only effective method in our democracy of enforcing community
standards of responsibility and safety against corporate wrong-doers.
Product liability cases need the most skilled
and experienced lawyer you can find.
These cases require the highest degree of
skill and experience on the part of the lawyer, who must first
be able to recognize and understand the technical issues, and
make a preliminary judgement about whether you may have a meritorious
case that should be investigated. Your lawyer must then have the
resources to identify and retain appropriate experts to consult
with, since all products cases depend on the opinions of qualified,
credible experts who are willing to testify that the injury was
preventable by better designs or warnings. Finally, your lawyer
then must be prepared to present your case in a persuasive way
to a jury in court, or negotiate on your behalf with insurance
companies and defense lawyers to a just resolution.
Click HERE
for a partial list of the dangerous products we have challenged.
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