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Product Liability

Product Liability affects thousands of consumers who are injured as a result of a defective product every year.

As the availability of consumer goods and new medications and treatments become available, the risk of potential problems with these products increases. Many of these injuries could be avoided if additional safety measures were taken by manufacturers or distributors. Oftentimes, safety improvements are only implemented after the companies are faced with numerous product liability lawsuits. If feel you have been injured by a defective product, please fill out our free Product Liability Case Evaluation Form.

According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, roughly 29.5 million injuries and 22,000 deaths are connected to defective products. The injuries, deaths, and associated property damage from defective products cost over $500 billion each year.

Product Liability holds any or all parties involved in the manufacturing of a product accountable for injuries or damage caused by the product.

This includes the product part manufacturers, production manufacturer, wholesaler, and in some cases, the retail storeowner. Product Liability includes numerous legal claims allowing an injured party to seek financial compensation from the manufacturing company or retailer of the defective product. Most commonly, the claims associated with Product Liability are negligence, strict liability, breach of warranty, and various consumer protection claims. Each type requires different elements to be proven in order for the claim to be successful.

Product Liability claims usually fall into one of three categories:
  • Defective product design
  • Defective product manufacturing
  • Failure/negligence to warn of product defect

Design defects exist prior to the product being manufactured. The product may serve its purpose well, but it can be unreasonably dangerous to use due to a design defect. On the other hand, a manufacturing defect occurring during the construction or production phase only causes a few of many identical items to be flawed. Defects in marketing deal with improper instructions and failures to warn consumers of latent dangers in the product. One example would be labeling the wrong dosage on a medicine bottle's instruction label. In this case, the drug company has a duty to warn the medical community and the public.

Here are some current products involved in Product Liability cases:

When a product released to the public turns out to be dangerous and causes serious injuries, the victims deserve to be compensated for resulting medical bills, pain and suffering, and lost wages. Morgan & Morgan understand the hardships that face today’s families. We are here to help you understand your legal rights and fight hard to protect them.