Products Liability

Products cause injuries when they are unreasonably safe, not accompanied by proper warnings, or negligently manufactured. Because many steps are involved in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of products, an injury from the product could be the result of one or more different causes. "Defects" include flaws in the way a product is designed, manufactured, or marketed. Typical causes of action in product liability include strict liability (the usual theory of recovery), breach of warranty, negligence, manufacturing and design defects, and breach of the duty to warn. A lawyer can help a victim of a product injury by sorting out potential defendants and securing expert testimony to support the victim’s claims.