Defective Products: Liability Claims

When you buy a product at the store, you trust that it is well made, exactly what is advertised, and safe. However, as the manufacturing process becomes more and more complex, products often start being made in one country, travel to another to be finished, and then shipped to its final destination. This makes room for mistakes, leaving you with a defective and sometimes dangerous product in your home.

There are three main types of defective product liability claims:

• Defective Manufacturing
• Defective Design
• Inadequate warnings or failure to give good instructions on how to use the product

Defective manufacturing is the most common defective product claim, because products just aren't made with the same sophistication as they used to be. If an error is made in manufacturing, you must not only prove this, but also prove that it caused your injury. For example, if your child is swinging on the new swing set you bought and the chain breaks while your child is swinging, the company would be held responsible for injuries to your family.

Defective design is inherent in the product, such as a certain type of car that flips over in tight turns or electric blankets that tend to catch on fire when turned up all of the way. These designs are simply flawed. A case like this usually results in a recall of all those products and damages awarded accordingly.

Bad warnings or instruction claims can include medicines that do not give sufficient warning about side effects or a new type of tea pot which does not explain that the handle may become very hot while in use. If you are injured because the warnings were not on the product, you may have a case.

Contact a Madison Personal Injury Lawyer

If you or a love one has been injured by a defective product, contact the Madison personal injury lawyers of Habush, Habush, & Rottier. Call 1-800-822-1690 to discuss the details of your claim today.