Product Injury Claims
Products Liability
On a daily basis we are working to help someone injured as a result of a defective product. We handle television tip over cases, defective children’s toy cases, and portable swimming pool cases. We have experience with electric can openers that have caught fire, pop cans that have exploded in the face of a child, and insect repellant that has ignited and caused third degree burns. We have also helped people who have been injured due to malfunctioning airbags, and electric car windows that would not role down and trapped the occupants of a car that flipped over in an otherwise minor crash.
Products liability law involves the legal theories of strict liability, negligence, breach of warranty, fraud, misrepresentation, and violation of the deceptive trade practice laws. From a consumer standpoint, these cases generally concern whether appropriate warnings were given to users or consumers of products. Also involved are issues with placement of warnings, appropriate content for operating equipment manuals, appropriate design requirements, necessity for inspection or testing, compliance with statutes and regulations, and determination of recall or retrofit advisability. Product liability claims often involve heavy industrial equipment, tractors, bulldozers, cranes, lift trucks, oil field equipment, scaffolding, kitchen equipment, tires, pharmaceuticals, smoke detectors, medical supplies, bottling equipment, packaging equipment, chemicals and glues, fertilizers, tobacco products, automotive equipment, camping equipment, ski equipment, ski lift equipment, textiles, hand tools, consumer products, bicycles, surgical equipment, blood products, and food.
Glass Safety Related Injuries
Amusement Ride Equipment Failure
Auto Products Liability
Automotive Crashworthiness – Air Bags/Seat Belts
Automotive Crashworthiness – Roof Crush
Automotive Crashworthiness – Stability Control
Post-Collision Fuel-Fed Fires in Cars and Heavy Trucks
Tire Failure – Tread Separation
General Products Liability
Bicycle Frame Failure
Fires – Clothing
Fires in Premises Caused by Home Heaters
Fires in Premises Caused by Stoves/Electrical Appliances
For more specific examples of the areas of law in which we concentrate, the firm has compiled a list of notable cases for your review.