Products Liability
Overview
Product manufacturers have an obligation to create products that are safe for their intended purpose and the reasonable and foreseeable use of that product. Hogan Law Office, PC has created a niche for ourselves in pursuing personal injury cases related to dangerous and defective products. Our firm’s courtroom experience extends to cases involving plaintiffs who have been injured through use of products, which are defective by design or defective as a result of inadequate warnings and instructions. We have prosecuted products liability cases for individuals injured by a variety of products including vehicles.
Forms of product defects
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When is a product unreasonably dangerous?
Some products, like scissors, are naturally dangerous. This does not make them unreasonably dangerous, because we expect that when we use them they can cut. A product that is unreasonably dangerous is one whose danger the consumer does not expect or whose risks outweigh its benefits. The property that makes the product unreasonably dangerous must have existed when the product left the control of the manufacturer.
What is products liability?
When a person uses a product in a reasonable manner and that product causes injury, the manufacturer, wholesaler, or seller may be liable. Products liability law allows consumers to seek compensation when a product harms them. Compensable injuries can result from negligence, design defects, manufacturing defects, lack of proper warning or instructions, and unreasonably dangerous conditions of the product.
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